You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.

Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct. And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.

Everyone has the abbility to hurt. It's the choice that matters.

A gust of wind set the leaves of grass to dancing and celebrated the grass's song before it died.

I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.

True silence is the speech of lovers.

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.

I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.