There is no doing in the world without being first.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

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 don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces