Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.