Family Issues Quotes

All of the drama with my family and me and my mom and the separation between us and all that crazy stuff - I actually wrote about that. I have a song called 'Dear Mom,' and it's about the trials and tribulations with my mom, so I wrote about that and just everything that I've been through.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

I never had a real conversation with my father.

More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.

Nobody wants a bad relationship with their parents, but at the same time we are all dealt a hand in this life and it's all about what you do with that.

I just want to say real quick, whatever kind of problems you've been going through, maybe you're having a hard time at work, maybe you're having a hard time with your family, whatever it might be, you can overcome that. You just have to keep your hope up.

My son İbrahim is old and sick, my grandson Abbas is lazy and indolent, and then children will rule Egypt. How will they keep Egypt?

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

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.

My family is broken.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black people don't always go to Broadway shows, but shows like 'What's on the Hearts of Men' has a lot of issues that can relate to black families, and that's why I enjoy it.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.

Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.

I think a lot of people want to blame their fathers for not being good enough when they were growing up. I think it can be an excuse for not coming to terms with your own problems.

There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.