When I was a kid, my mother ...

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.
 Halle Berry

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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
 Halle Berry
My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
 Halle Berry
I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.
 Halle Berry
My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.
 Halle Berry
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
 Halle Berry