“The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people – to black people.”

Girls like dudes that are overweight.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you’re not dead!

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It’s not as much about them loving you – it’s about you needing to love people.

Life is too short, there is no guarantee how much do you live, Live your Life.

I have skills like a panther, and I am going to change my destiny with it.

There’s nothing more painful than your abdomen growling.

You have to appreciate things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under tension

When I attain before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ability left, and could say, ‘I used everything You gave me.

When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career,” he said at the time. “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.

Let the ways of love be the ways of man.

We came. We saw. We conquered.

The rise of the women is the rise of the nation.

A beautiful city with incredible people. My thoughts are with you, Berlin.

Been blessed to work with many strong, beautiful women.

Gender Equality. Start from the top. Dare to put a woman in power.

Some states spend more $$ on prisons than on colleges. We have to make a change.

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

Wearing a hijab never made me feel any more conservative – it made me feel safe. Then, after 9/11, I became the butt of a joke on the playground, so I stopped wearing it. Kids can be really cruel when you’re the only black girl in your Girl Scout troop.

Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?

It isn’t a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that’s beautiful.

I was’nt always black. There was this freckel that just grew and grew.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?

I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.