My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty

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.

All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

Can they love without a word for it?

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does... to gain a hearing for the gospel.