There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Over the years, I've come to realize that determination makes one to punch above one's weight.

I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity.

A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

I found myself in too much of a box situation.

Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.