Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.

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

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

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.