Black Parenting Quotes

#1. Raising Black children - female and male - in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

Audre Lorde

#2. I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the Andes, to try to bring people stories of sort of what's going on out in the world and bring this issue alive, in a way, and put it out there.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#3. I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

Stephen Stills

#4. Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

Lewis Black

#5. Mostly they all were products of single parents, and in the most tragic category - black boys, with no particular criminal inclinations but whose very lack of direction put them in the crosshairs of the world.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. In the heart are three emotions - I felt them then: love, fear, and hatred. I could see that an individual could only have one of the three at a time.

Christopher Pike

#7. Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

Vince Lombardi

#8. We must stay connected to vine to keep bearing fruits.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. definitely not best friends

Paula Danziger

#10. Gardens were weeded and watered and

Libbie Hawker

#11. Look, they're wearing light blue gauzy frozen superhero capes because I have told them that Anna is a junior superhero with a black sister and a gay brother- both of whom are off ruling other countries because, y'know, they have jobs. You do your mothering your way. I'll do my mothering mine .

Shonda Rhimes

#12. For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

Michael Showalter

#13. If I do eat meat, it's got to be ethical. I want to know that it lived a great life before it was killed humanely.

Ricky Gervais

#14. I am the king. You're the knight sitting at my round table. That's the nature of our relationship when it comes to war or other conflict resolution in this family.

Sarah Black

#15. Be solution oriented. Infect everyone with enthusiasm.

Debasish Mridha

#16. At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

Carl Jung

#17. Indra believed that the birth of each of her sons had been accompanied by a sign... With Sarva, overnight her cascading black hair showed a thick clutch of grey. He was the child she would struggle most with.

Rohini Mohan

#18. When wars end, all the shit comes tumbling out. People talk, point fingers at each other, reveal things they've kept quiet for years.

Karen Traviss