Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.
Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense.
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.
I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.
Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories