I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

IT'S PRETTY HARD for the Lord TO GUIDE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE UP YOUR MIND WHICH WAY TO GO.

I got my start by giving myself a start.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.

I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

Perseverance is my motto.

I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.

One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.

A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.

The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.