Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:

Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.