It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that just because you love someone doesn’t mean they deserve it.

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!

The road to success is always under construction.

I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.

When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!

If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.

Be who you are

Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star.

My mother is my teacherHer words make me richerI thank you oh my motherMay you grow and live longer!

When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No, ' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.