"My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother."

-- Rashida Jones

#Mother Quotes #Dad Quotes #Father Quotes

“I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.”

Source : Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.
“Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272
“The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.”
“Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness”

Source : Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.15, Harper Collins
“Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.”
“He turned, throwing over hi shoulder, â€And if he growls at you, even once, heâ€™s out. He looks wild.â€ I am, Riley snapped inside her head. Do not laugh, she thought to herself. Her dad paused at the door. â€œWhere does it stay while youâ€™re at school?â€ It. Nice. â€œOutside.â€ â€œYou could be inviting flees into our home, Mary Ann.â€ No. Laughing. â€œHeâ€™s clean, Dad. I swear. But if I spot a single little bug, Iâ€™ll bathe him.â€ That could prove interesting, Riley said.”
“One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.”
“Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things”

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