Facts can obscure the truth.

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.