Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering

You have a right to your thoughts and feelings. Your feelings are always valid.

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

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