There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.

Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

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.

We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.