For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.

Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.

Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

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.

I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.