When you are not happy where you are, and you are not quite sure if you want to leave or how to leave, you are in the meantime. Its a state of limbo. You are hanging on, ready to let go, afraid to fall, not wanting to hurt yourself, afraid you will hurt someone else. In the meantime, you pray the other person will let go first so that you will not feel guilty.

When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives.

I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

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

The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.