We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.

I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.