I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

The divinity dwells in thee. Awaken the divine power.

For every good deed done, a blessing is waiting to be born!

I believe that the choice not to have a choice is a choice in itself.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.

The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.

Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.