Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.