I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

All great acheivements require time.

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.