Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway. He has to get through you first before he gets into the house to get your family. I’m one of those guys who wants to be in that door.
I know what it’s like to be married and to live in a house with a garden, but it’s not something I’m striving for at the moment.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
I learned another thing from the hurt my cousin gave me – never to give that kind of hurt to anyone else. My revenge was to change a bad feeling into a good one. If I’m working with you and I sense you’re feeling a little insecure, I try to make you feel great. That’s how I get rid of my old hurt. If I don’t do that, my hurt grows and makes me mean and vengeful. But if hurt can change to kindness – that’s something Mama showed me – the world becomes a little less cruel.
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
I was loved dearly by my father but I was never so precious that he didn’t think that I could be in there right at the table.
Nobody loves me but my mother – And she could be jivin’, too.
I’ve always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I’m right on schedule.
I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
She does have a very nice figure… If [Ivanka] weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.
I didn’t want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn’t doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
I guess my parents were strict. There were a few times when being with my friends and had bring my sister. It was just my parents best interests.
I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.
[On his mother’s adversity] She had a very difficult beginning All of my mothers family were killed and she came to America at the time of the depression. It was not an easy life at all.
Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I’m going to be a real mommy.
A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future.
How do you build a relationship when you’ve hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don’t see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.
I know some people say it’s not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it’s always worked so well for me.
My siblings are my best friends.
