I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

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!

I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.

I might not have been so young, but age alone doesn’t necessarily make you less foolish.

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She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.