If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

When we keep our silence we gather our power

Never complete. Never whole.White skin and an African soul.

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.

The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

Sometimes God offends our minds in order to reveal our hearts.

Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.