There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no­­­-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?

Have enough courage to love.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

At our best, we are all teachers

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.