It's more important to be read than paid.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

IT'S PRETTY HARD for the Lord TO GUIDE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE UP YOUR MIND WHICH WAY TO GO.

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

I got my start by giving myself a start.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.

She sat in her perfect house, with her perfect husband, wishing that her perfect life would end.

If it has to be done, you have to do it yourself.

Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced

A Warrior of Light does not postpone making decisions.

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

A summer apart changes people.s