I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

This is your moment. Own it.

When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.

I firmly believe that none of us in this world have made it until the least among us have made it.

I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are...

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.