I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

Suffering is the fire by which love is tested.

Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.

Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has.