Beware of people who fall at your feet. They may be reaching for the corner of the rug.

All parents experience the same problems.

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Romance is a different word than sexual contact.

The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child.

My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.