Big Mama Quotes:

The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

- Michelle Singletary

topic: Hate, School, Grandmother, Financial Literacy, Big Mama

I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

- Margo Martindale

source: "Margo Martindale: A 'Justified' Moonshine Matriarch". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 12, 2011.

topic: Cat, Years, Hot, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Big Mama

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

- Laura Lippman

source: Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

topic: Big Daddy, Big Mama

I knew I had found my life's passion after writing my first column for The Washington Post. The response was like nothing we had seen in the business section. Everyday people were writing that finally someone was speaking to them in a way that was understandable. I think we were all shocked at how many readers wrote in to say that they too had a Big Mama who taught them about money.

- Michelle Singletary

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Passion, Writing, Thinking, Big Mama

My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the shadows of a North Carolina plantation. It's only been in my lifetime that blacks have had the right to vote, live in certain areas or hold certain jobs. It is with this black history that I write about the financial challenges African-Americans still have.

- Michelle Singletary

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Jobs, Children, Growing Up, Plantations, Children Growing Up

My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.

- Michelle Singletary

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Home, School, Grandmother, Personal Finance, Big Mama