Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

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.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.

There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.