7,080 Quotes About Family

have you everhearda black woman weep over her skinmurdered child.it is the splitting of atoms.it is billionsofvoices screaming their children’s namesthroughher death wail.–– trayvon martin ii

Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling to put them in order, that almost destroyed me. It's also what allowed me to live again.

How can love be such a wrecking ball?

Who never cry or cried may actually not be evolving as a good Human

Sometimes the ending you wish for isn't what you dreamt, but it's perfect enough.

Generosity is a giving that comes from the knowledge of an intimate bond. True generosity is acting on the truth—not on the feeling—that those I am asked to forgive are “kinfolk,” and belong to my family. And whenever I act this way, that truth will become more visible to me. Generosity creates the family it believes in.

She held him, her arms tight about him, she had never understood it, but when they met, she and her sister and brothers, suddenly all of their wives, husbands, and children seemed members of another race, no part of the Family, that family whose allegiances antedated all others.

When I callyou brother,it means you haveat least four fistsduring any fightyou can't walkyourself out of.

Being family just means we don't have the safety of fences between us.