I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.

People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.