Mama Quotes - Page 11

• Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Appreciation, Passion, Creative

  Lewis Grizzard (1991). “Don't Forget to Call Your Mama--: I Wish I Could Call Mine”

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• As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

  Carole Keeton

  Grandma, Believe, Appreciate

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• Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here.

  Jim Croce

  Work, Air, Talking

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• Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.

  Ray Davies

  Trying, Obesity, Break

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• What the color is, who the daddy be, who the mama is don’t mean nothin’.  We family, carin’ for each other.  Family make us strong in times of trouble.  We all stick together, help each other out.  That the real meanin’ of family.  When you grow up, you take that family feelin’ with you.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Strong, Growing Up, Real

  Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the shadows of a North Carolina plantation. It's only been in my lifetime that blacks have had the right to vote, live in certain areas or hold certain jobs. It is with this black history that I write about the financial challenges African-Americans still have.

  Michelle Singletary

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldn't turn them away. I wasn't much older than any of them, but they started calling me 'Mama Africa' and the name stuck.

  Miriam Makeba

  New York, Doors, Cities

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• When I was a little baby, my mama she said "Son.Travel where you will and grow to be a manAnd sing what must be sung, poor boySing what must be sung.

  Hoyt Axton

  Baby, Son, Littles

  Song: Greenback Dollar, Album: The Balladeer, 1962

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• Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

  Billie Holiday

  Wisdom, Children, Papa

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.108, Broadway Books

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• My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.

  Michelle Singletary

  Home, School, Grandmother

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I don't see the women as a problem. The women are doing all they can do. They're heading up households; they're single parents; they're breadwinners; they're the 'mamas,' they're the 'daddies,' they're the 'uncles.' They take the kids to school; they take them to doctors, you know? They take them to games. I see it all the time.

  Steve Harvey

  Uncles, School, Kids

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I had a plan ever since I was nine years old, when I said "Mama, I'm a buy you a nice house and pretty dresses." That was the plan, that was my goal.

  Mr. T

  Nice, Years, Goal

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.

  Beth Ditto

  Careers, Weight, Yeah

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• Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more of a papas boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Father, Boys, Papa

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• Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

  Ava DuVernay

  Sweet, Directors, Hollywood

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• I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Boys, Disrespect

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2009.

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• I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"

  Mr. T

  Football, Play, Guy

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Falling In Love, Smart, Men

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.41, Kodansha America

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• It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history.

  Bell Hooks

  Growing Up, Home, Night

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• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  Imogen Poots

  Brother, My Birthday, Papa

  "Imogen Poots Talks Jeff Buckley Biopic & What She’s Got Coming To A Theater Near You". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2011.

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• In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, School, Mean

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). “Colored People”, p.20, Vintage

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• Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

  Stevie Wonder

  School, Sunday, Evil

  Song: I Wish, Album: Natural Wonder, 1976

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• I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam.

  Tracy Byrd

  Uncles, Mean, Play

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• I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I'm crazy about Justin Timberlake.

  Gayle King

  Crazy, Men, Reason

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• I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Play

  Song: Rosalita, 1973

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