Thank[Barack Obama] for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.

The endless list of do’s and don’ts handed down while growing up, gradually and unconsciously distance us from the inner child.

Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart.

The moment you are more interested and obsessed to others you begin to loose your Self . It's so insane that you again seek others to help find self.

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.