America Ferrera

When your children arrive, your heart becomes a room with wide open windows.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

I’ve known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That hurts, and that’s as deep a hurt as you can possibly get. I’ve known people that would have problems with their love life. This is kind of how blues began – out of feeling misused, mistreated. Feeling like they had nobody to turn to. Blues don’t necessarily have to be sung by a person that came from Mississippi as I did, because there are people having problems all over the world.

They say that no matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

Maybe that’s all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

Nobody loves me but my mother – And she could be jivin’, too.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

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.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

There’s a reason why people who’ve had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

No person in their right mind would want to put their family through what I’ve had to put my family through.

I pay my mama’s bills, I ain’t got no time to chill.

My #1 priority is being a mother as well and I can work too, so can you!

The joy is still there when I see Sean. He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all his things. But he is my biggest pride.