Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Power gives you influence in the world

I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Their raspy kisses brand our jam tart necks, their treacherous miasma clasps our herbal thighs. Motherlessly we surrender, too many fathers we have, we, your daughters of joy.

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

There's no way you could convince me today that Jesus is not real.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.