Keke Palmer Quotes

Growing up, my dad and my mom were there for my sister and I.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.

I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

My parents did a great job.

I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that cared about me.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

My mom was tough.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.

It's really a testament to my parents, because I was active, curious and creative as a child, and my parents nurtured that. But I wouldn't say that I was a professional child actor at all. I was never the breadwinner of my family.

When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.

My parents were obsessed with us being normal kids, so I never knew movie stars. They didn't want us to be Hollywood brats.

I probably took on the father role, as children will. I know I did.

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

I'm a product of this visionary mother and father.

I had a fantastic upbringing by two parents who cared deeply about their children but, more importantly, believed that anything was possible for their children and, in some ways, almost brainwashed us to be successful.

I had the two best teachers in the world. That was my family.

I never knew a regular childhood, but I was always surrounded by love.

I wouldn't be were I am now without my parents.