Ā mama yo
izuku e chiro to
aki no kumo.

Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.

Everyone who works with me calls me "Ma." I'm the motherly type.

A mother's voice is like no other. We recognize every lilt and whisper, every warble or shriek.

2. i got 14 fevers/ i got 5 believers...dressed up like men
tell your mama not to worry/

2. (a) tell your mama & your pappa i'm trying to keep from dying too

3. tell your mamma & your pappa that there's nothing wrong with my jugular vein
tell your mama i love her & tell your sister Alice the same

4. when you sleep on windows & you stay up all night swallowing rocks

5. i should've sent her to Hong Kong instead of leaving

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

I wrote this song to celebrate mothers all over the globe who pray tirelessly for the growth and success of their children.

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together

Ma, you're still beautiful to me, 'cause you're my mom

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

thankful for Mummy for giving you birth and God who created you (youNihashimirwe mama wakwibarutse na Rurema waguhanze).

"Mama's beautiful?" I asked. "Are you blind?" said my brother. "Don't you see how men and women are always looking at our mother everywhere she goes. Our mother is more beautiful than any movie star you'll ever see, and yet this isn't why papa chose her. He chose her, he's told us a thousand times, because when he first saw her, she was in line to go into the dance hall over in Carlos Malo with her brother and sister. And when a fight broke out, she didn't get excited and enjoy it like her sister and the other women. No, she and her brother moved away, wanting no part of it, and so, by seeing this, papa knew that she was a woman of high intelligence, respect, and responsibility; a person that he could trust with his life. And trust, remember, is the foundation of all love, papa says."

We are celebrating a female activist. Sometimes Mama was chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) here in UI. She was also a champion of women rights. To so many of us, she has touched our lives. She practically mentored many of us. Even in old age, she has continued to publish.

Mothers are always mothering.