Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

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.

Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.

I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.

I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.

If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.