"I became the kind of parent my..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
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“I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.”
“Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.”
“Forgive yourself - no one else will.”
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“I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!”
“It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.”
“It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.”
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“Mom is a planner, an organizer. She's very strong and practical. She's the person that'll tell me if I ever start to change my personality. The balance of the two of them created my personality.”
“My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.”
“It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.”