You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

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