As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.

A mother's love liberates.

Don't bring negative to my door.

Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.