Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.
My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?
I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.
There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.
I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.