Parents

"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."

"The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."

"To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

"Your parents don't teach you how to heal, experience does."

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

"A woman becomes a responsible parent when she quit being an obedient child."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

"Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on."

"My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together."

"People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents."