Children need models rather than critics.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.

The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

The fault that no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Giving away baby clothes and nursery furniture is a major cause of pregnancy.