#chi

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#children #going #inconsistency #know #never

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#be real #because #both #children #enough

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#face #got #grandmother #had #her

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#continued #first #got #high #high school

We children learned responsibility automatically. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#children #learned #responsibility

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#achieved #anything #drama #feel #feelings

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. ↗

— Marion Jones

#champion #child #i #involved #knew

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#down #endless #hands #into #little

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#dollars #manufacturers #sold #today #two

I preferred sewing to bossing little children. ↗

— Mother Jones

#i #little #little children #preferred #sewing