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Family Quotes
"Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man."
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"Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father."
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"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer."
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"The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it."
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"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."
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"They stayed by my side the whole time - my teammates, family and all the fans."
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"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end."
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"The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country."
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"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children."
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"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
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"We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together."
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"If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food."
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"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."
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"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister."
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"The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted."
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"In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim.You promised not to do that, the boy said.What?You know what, Papa.He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back.I have to watch you all the time, the boy said."
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"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."
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"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."
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"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it."
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"I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is."
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"My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him."
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"Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much."
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"I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income."
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"The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst."
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"We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire."
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"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."
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