Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God- it is a sign your faith is deteriorating.

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

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.

I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content.

If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.

When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.

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