Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.