Family Quotes

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

I come from a proud, Black family, and generations of proud, Black women. So I've always grown up with that special armor, that ability to be the only Black person in a room and keep my head up high - because I feel like I'm representing a lot of Black people who aren't there.

I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

In the 1950s, my family first lived in West Los Angeles. Dad was studying architecture at USC and we didn't have a lot of money. He'd buy crumbling fixer-uppers, make repairs and sell them for a small profit. Then we'd move on. My early childhood image of him is standing on a ladder and sanding the front door.

Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I'm always going to stay humble.

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

I'm still a Red Bull driver. I'm part of this family more than ever.