As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic, " he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

The best way not to encounter Americas health care system is not to have to encounter it.

I am mad - but I choose this madness.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.