America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

IT'S PRETTY HARD for the Lord TO GUIDE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE UP YOUR MIND WHICH WAY TO GO.

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

I got my start by giving myself a start.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

Perseverance is my motto.

I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.

One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.

Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.

Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

A congressman sent a tweet that compared president Obama to Adolf Hitler. He has now apologized. It's not helping that he apologized to Hitler.

We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.

I'm going to be me at the end of the day. And I think my family appreciates that. They're happy for me that I'm finding out who I am, and I'm content with that.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.