I've always been a tomboy. I've always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.

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.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

Any method to heighten the presence of that which is the source of creation within you, is yoga.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.