In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Facts can obscure the truth.

Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

My mother had said me, "All right, you've been raised, so don't let anybody else raise you. You know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. And remember - you can always come home." And she continued to liberate me until she died. On the night she died, I went to the hospital. I told my mom, "Let me tell you about yourself. You deserved a great daughter, and you got one. And you liberated me to be one. So if it's time for you to go, you may have done everything God brought you here to do."

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.