Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

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!

You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves.

Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

It’s not stalking if you don't follow them home, right?

Clutter is my natural habitat.

If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.