Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape.

She always wanted to believe in things.

I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.

I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

If the truth is told, the youth can grow.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.