Arkansas Quote by Maya Angelou

My mother would have been so crazy about my grandchildren. She was a fabulous grandmother, and she would have been absolutely crazed as a…

— Judith Viorst

My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again.…

— John Henrik Clarke

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with…

— Lauren London

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart,…

— Lisa Bonet

Once, when I was 5 years old, a little girl who lived next door to my grandmother dared me to put on a muumuu…

— Janet Mock

My grandmother is the type of person, I'd be down playing cards in the park, and she'd take the dog and walk down to…

— Howie Long

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed

— Cheryl Ladd

I felt I was beating a rainbow to death

— Yann Martel

The older I got, the more apparent it became that my mother was losing control over me. She fought back fiercely with black moods,…

— George Carlin

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

— Jaye Davidson

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa,…

— Joan Collins

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.

— Cher