You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will become.” – Lady Lalaigne to Nhakira, “Chosen

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

Everything is possible for one who believes

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.

Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.