In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great

Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.