If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

I can only live in my truth.

To be silent is to be passive.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

Everything happens when it's supposed to.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

Leaders do not play a "what if game". They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

I don't like pot anymore -- I forget why.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.

I know I have this image but in reality, if you take all my records, I had to use five or six [tracks].