To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

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

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

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.