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" So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it. "

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" I am a different kind of celebrity; I don't have the big, giant house, the fancy cars, and all the designer stuff. I am just a girl from Cleveland. "

Kym Whitley

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" If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school. "

" Cooking for my son is a challenge. I have to feed him right. He can't eat French fries and candy every day. "

" Of course I watch 'Life with La Toya' on OWN. "

Kym Whitley

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" Shaker Heights, Ohio is a predominately white neighborhood. It was when I moved in, and it still is. "

" I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different. "

" The OWN network is all about inspiring and enlightening. "

" I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.' "

" I want adopted people to know they were chosen. "

" It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people. "

" You can talk about reality TV if you want to, but guess what - it was a big commercial for Kym Whitley. "

Kym Whitley

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" I've always wanted to work with children, to help people, and to be funny. "

" I've always had an entourage. Even when I was a little kid, I had a lot of little children following around me. "

" I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are. "

" It doesn't matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother. "

" I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy - and I had not stopped to become a mommy. "

Kym Whitley

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" I've thought my show would be a sitcom or a talk show. Never in a million years would I have thought my show would be docu-series/reality because you always think reality is something crazy. "

" It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role. "

" Sometimes, moms have to be creative to get their babies to eat healthy. "

" A woman is a woman. A woman has male problems, has job problems, and I think funny is funny. "

" Sometimes you have to change the mold. If people keep following the same Hollywood mold, you're going to get the same thing. And as a Black actress, there's not a whole lot out there for us, unless we're creating it. "

" I believe that people just want to laugh and have a good time. "

" I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a little peanut butter and his face swelled up. I took him to get tested and found out that he is allergic to everything. "

" My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving. "

" We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people. "

Kym Whitley

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" I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life. "

" In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life. "

" I love female company. I love men, but women are different. "

" I've always wanted to be a man for a day. "

" My cousin was Ron O'Neal, who was 'Superfly.' Films like 'Shaft' and 'Superfly' were the biggest things out there in the early '70s. It's hard to remember just how big they were - how much impact they had on the culture, the music, the fashions, the hair styles. "