“People are not allowed to tell you who you are. Period.”

Growing apart can also be a blessing. Make space for that.

I feel joyful when I show up along with my fears.

When you compare yourself to others you deny that your own magic exists.

I can see the good in people and still advocate for my boundaries.

Your wins will sound like bragging when you’re sharing with the wrong crowd.

Give yourself permission to allow others to be there for you.

I am the only person who gets to define me.

I call my energy back when I stop trying to figure out subliminal messages.

It’s okay if you only have space for you right now.

Minding your business is how you call your power back.

Love doesn’t require us to stay in unhealthy relationships or situations.

No matter what someone has endured, it doesn’t give them a license to be harmful to you.

You deserve the peace you’re always willing to provide others.

Asking for help doesn’t make you weak, it makes you brave.

We are allowed to heal. We deserve it.

My worth is not based on how much I do for others.

Someone once told me the definition of hell; on your last day on earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became.

A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’