Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?
Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.
Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.
It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.
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