Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.

When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.

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

If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.