Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.