I lose things all the time. I used to lose my license all the time before I put a place in my car for it.

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.

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.

Anybody can take offense in everything. You will just go crazy if you try to make everything politically correct every single second.

The beauty of words!

Dwell on the beautiful miracles of life.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer - to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.

Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus.

Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world.