The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.

There is no love that is not self-love

Don't envy those who seems having everything, they don't really have everything. They have what they want and live the life they want but they don't have what they really need.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

We are going to suspend the issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening cannot occur.

I’m like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power!

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.