I remember my father drove a bus and my mother was a waitress, and so we often didn't get to have Thanksgiving together.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

my mother said to me now, "but all we will miss you,your father and I."

VOA: special.2009.02.14

"My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

"And so around the table, morning and night, I heard my mother and father and my sister discussing events involving black treatment in America.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16