Living well is an art that can be developed.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep