I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

When you committed to love me, cherish me, be only with me, protect my heart, I took all that literally. Silly me.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.