How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

The pursuit of passion is a decisive purposeful living.

The definition of a relationship is like a shower. You go in when it is cold, and come out when it is too hot.

Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.

We have to be willing to do whatever it takes to win.

There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.