I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that.
It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.
I see God as my heavenly father, like my earthly father, as loving and kind. Yes, he disciplined me, he helped me make good decisions, but I knew my dad was always there for me. If I made a mistake, I wouldn't run from my dad, I'd go to him.
I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.
I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.
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 felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.
My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.
I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.
We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand.
All Pro Dad is an organization that started down in Tampa in 1997. And it was just a group of us who felt like we weren't doing as good a job as our fathers did in connecting with kids and being there and being involved in their lives, working and coaching and spending all the time we had to. We just felt badly.
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?
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.
Many of us were raised without a father, and the subject of deadbeat dads hits home in a lot of areas. Most of all, doing a song about being a father to your daughter flies straight in the face of the argument that says hip-hop is misogynistic.
On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday.
Big Mike Meyer was my real dad as far as I was concerned.
My dad leaving my life. That's the biggest thing that happened to me. I just remember what he tells me, the memories, and try to move on forward each day, knowing that he's still here, looking down on me.
Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.
