They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

You can't be hesitant about who you are.

Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.

I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

The moment of honouring our humanity is now.

My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.

We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.

AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.