In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.

Just embrace your hair! I really feel like I am not an advocate for people doing what I do. I'm an advocate for people discovering and finding what works for them.

When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite "milkmaid" braid.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.

I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself'.

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

Humans lie without a second thought.

She laughed, and the duke might actually have smiled, though one could never be certain.

Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.