I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

The most important thing is to DARE.

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

I come as one, but stand as 10,000.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

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