You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

Every day is your day if you claim it.

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

The way we do one thing is the way we do everything.

Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.

You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse.

No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.