I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me.

The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation.

It is not your job to convince men to like you.

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

Whatever you have in mind do, for the Lord is with you.

You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived - somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time.

If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

Pressure is what you live for...if you are going to be successful in life, you're going to have pressure.

I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.

Finding love requires perseverance.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.