Kehlani Quotes

I grew up in a town without fathers.

My father was gone when I was three years old.

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

My mother never took my hand.

My characters are often without a significant parental figure.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

My dad was in my life, and he was actually a very positive influence on me in my life. He was always there. He was a great dad. But my parents divorced when I was 5, so I grew up in a single-parent home.

My father, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.

I didn't meet my father until I was in the fourth grade.

I didn't have a dad coming up. I didn't have someone to be scared of.

Growing up without my parents by my side is a weight I still carry today.

I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8.

I want to be present for my kids, and my biological father wasn't present for me.

I didn't want to hurt my parents' feelings about how hard certain things were in my 20s, how hard it was when my dad left my senior year before I went to college.

A lot of people don't even know that about me, I grew up without a father.

My mother, Carole Hedges, was my world until she walked out of our house when I was 7. Actually, she didn't walk out. Alcohol walked her out.

I probably gave up on my dad when I was born.