Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.

You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.