Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
Mother
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
I talk to my kids about my mother’s energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
The seeds of divorce are often sown and the problems of children begin when Mother works outside the home.
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ‘it.’
It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.