My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth be careful and stay positive.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015 even if the mothers are positive.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

My mother Lillie Specter was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

If a politician murders his mother the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion but in fact what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.