Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

Reproduce yourself and fulfill your calling

those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...

There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.

Without his father's shadow in a way, he's beautiful.

To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.

When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.