I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

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!

Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.