Motherhood

Find motherhood advice on this page, courtesy of our most popular African-American celebrities.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mother?s names.
Alice Walker

I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
Whitney Houston

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.
Stevie Wonder

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Wilma Rudolph

My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
Denzel Washington

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
Wilma Rudolph

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.
Stevie Wonder

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker