I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes...

Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.

I sustain myself with the love of family.