If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can’t get it together and you don’t know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don’t stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there’s one way. You can’t have any fear.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.