Quotes About Family

I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'

Children with no father at home are between four and five times more likely to be poor as the children of married parents, whether they are black or white.

I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

My father didn't believe in my music. I don't blame him.

Can you blame star kids for that? If I'm somebody's daughter, and I'm being offered a film, why would I say no?

I have two kids and they were by no means blank slates. One is exactly like me, one is exactly like my wife.

I sleep with my baby blanket, Kiki, that my nana made for me.

I have been incredibly lucky. My parents are actors; they've been the safety blanket around me.

My memories of mealtimes are a real bleed of music and food. Music never really stopped in the music room, because everyone would move out to the table with their sitars.

This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.

I try, in my films, to normalize things that maybe 20 or 30 years ago a film would have been about. 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' needed its own film, but now blended families you see all the time.

Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.

My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.

Me and my family are straight. I am blessed. I am alive, man, and I am healthy, and that is the only thing that matters. Me and my family, everybody else, it really doesn't matter because why do you care about somebody talking negative about you if they don't know you?

My kids love me. I'm blessed.

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

I have a blessed life.

Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.

I have the most wonderful children. I've been very, very blessed.

I'm blessed to have a dad who's always there for me and a mom who's always there for me, and they're on good terms.

I'm really blessed to have an amazing family.

I believe a mother is a blessing for everyone and we should make it a point to appreciate them every day.