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

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.