... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.

Aint nuttin' but a peanut.

Light weight ... Yeah buddy!

I always say to myself right before a tough set in the gym, Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

When you hit failure your workout has just begun.

Ain't nuttin' to it,but ta do it!

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder.

Just because your triceps have fallen behind your biceps, doesn't mean you should back off your triceps workouts.

It is important to have people believe in you. With this support, what you can achieve is limitless.

Let me live my final days whole.Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.

And that is one of the worst things about this life. As a liar, a pretend person, you cannot really truly ever be someone's friend. My American life, it is lonely. Often, it is very, very lonely.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

Home is our greatest place of trials.

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

I'm very outgoing and social.

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

When I'm out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as.