You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
Marian Wright EdelmanThe outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.
Marian Wright Edelman