Books were my pass to personal freedom.

The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.

Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.

I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.