"I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them."

-- Evander Holyfield

#Mother Quotes #Strong Quotes #Nice Quotes

“People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.”
“When you make a choice, you change the future.”
“Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.”
“I've always eaten egg whites because when I was little, I didn't like the color yellow, so my mom would trick me into eating eggs by taking out the yolk.”

Source : "Who do you like best, José, Avram or Big Phil?". Interview with John Terry, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.
“Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.”
“Being fit and being in the best shape that I can be helps me be the best mom as well.”
“It takes few words to tell the truth.”
“Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It's a form of allowing them to be curious about the world.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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