But my mother says the way you start a thing off determines how you end it.
My mother says she never thought in her life, she'd live to see this moment and there's no way that she will not make history by pulling that lever for progress what the American people have shown, not just black Americans, but this is for all Americans because none of us can do it alone.
"It's my mother, " says Mayberry, who holds a law degree and a masters in journalism.
"The basic problem is that your company's security depends on my mother, " he says.
"My son says that his mother will come back some day, she must return, " he cried.
"I took my mother off it, " says David Brown, head of cardiology at SUNY Stony Brook Medical Center.
"I wanted to produce a film my mother could watch, " says Neo, 38.
"I am not throwing my child away, " says his mother, Nuraini, wiping away tears.
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"They stripped me of my scarf and searched my hair, " says Mahdi's mother-in-law, Ameen.
"I wasn't 11 and being forced into tap lessons and singing lessons, and being sent to auditions by my overly tanned mother in California, " she says.
"When I look at my child I feel like dying, " her mother says.
"They say they're marketing a lifestyle, but it's not a lifestyle I would want my kids to emulate, " says Granholm, mother of three.
"But I do tell my mother there are other things she can do, " says London, who's studied the brain and aging.
"My mother referred to it as the family computer farm, " says Blodgett, a master falconer and himself a father of eight.
"My mother said I was a little odd as a kid, " says Lauper, 59.
"I opted to give my children to my mother, not because I don't love them, " she says.
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"My son won't stop stealing my iPhone, " says Chelsea Conover, an office manager and the mother of 11-year-old David, who is entering the seventh grade this September.
"My father, to me, was 10 feet tall, " says Frazier, whose mother died when he was very young.
"My own mother, I tell her to take an Ambien on a nightly basis, " Scharf says.
"I saw my mother go from riding in a chauffeur-driven car to taking the bus, " Perez says.
"My family and I don't have any problem with this, " says Makiko Kino, mother to three small boys.
"My mother decided to go all out, and she went to a very, very exclusive job agency, " Hope says.
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