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.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Don't live your life to please other people.

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.

After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.