My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians.
No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.
I wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.
I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C.
Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
I made good money at WWE and traveled the world and interacted with my fans, but I missed a lot of family time. That really hits me.
My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.
I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone.
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family, and certainly the only Haitian family. But my parents were really great at providing a loving home where we could feel safe and secure.
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.
It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.
My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.
We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
I feel strongly that the state would not be well-served by having a governor and speaker of the House from the same family and have never planned to run for governor if that would be the case. With Speaker Madigan planning to continue in office, I will not run for governor.
I call The National my family, and I'll be doing that as long as I want to.
Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family?
I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.
People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.
My grandkids are everything to me. For me, family is all!
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
I don't remember my skin changing, but I do recall feeling deeply loved by my family.
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.
If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.
