I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

I love you, music man. You are my happily ever after.

Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.

I am in constant search for that project that speaks to me personally. And when all the pieces come together properly, it'll happen.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.