As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you", the person finally begins to believe it.

We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.