“Believe in yourself and don’t let nobody stop you from doin’ what you gotta do.”

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

What people do for the struggle of power is madness.

It makes sense that if you good in your heart then you closer to God.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Fear is stronger than love.

The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.

I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle. I make mistakes but learn from every one.

Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace and end the war in the streets.

A woman brought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.

You gotta make a change. You see the old way wasn’t working so it’s on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.

Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it.

Only God can judge me.

Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back, it simply means that you are two steps ahead.

Ain’t a woman alive that could take my mama’s place.

You either evolve or you disappear.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

I feel very strongly that curves are natural, womanly and real. I shall continue to hope that women are able to believe in themselves for who they are inside, and not feel under such incredible pressure to be unnaturally thin.

One lady told me that before she saw ‘Sounder’ she didn’t believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.

But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.