I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

I can only live in my truth.

To be silent is to be passive.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

Everything happens when it's supposed to.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...

Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.

Leave no "full stop" in between the sentences that make up your life story. If anything, let "commas" show that when you were brought down by challenges, you rose up with passion and moved on again!

When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.

The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.