I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.