It’s important to have relationships with the people at the archives.

I'm not saying we all have to love each other. I'm not saying we all have to agree with each other. I'm not even saying we have to like each other but let's respect each other.

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.

In a crisis, give help first and then advice.

Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits? Only to ugly people

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.

The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.