If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.