R. Kelly Quotes

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

I grew up without a father figure.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

Of course there's some things that I would have liked to have... none of my friends growing up had their father in the house. None of 'em. We had uncles and stuff like that, but nobody had a father in the house, none of my friends.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

I didn't have a dad around to pick me up when I fell, throw the ball to me outside. I always wonder how it would be if I did have a dad there.

I want to be the dad that my father never was.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?

Growing up, as a kid, my father was always there.

A lot of people don't even know that about me, I grew up without a father.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.