Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.

When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen

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.