Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that's inside of you.

I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.

I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.