My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethovens mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person. – Harry Connick, Jr.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. – Harriet Ann Jacobs

Because of my unique experience as my moms child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be. – Tracee Ellis Ross