“It’s okay to know what you want, it’s equally okay to be fighting it out well.”

If a dream has been planted in your heart, nobody can keep you from the harvest.

Things do not have to be shiny and loud, to be important.

Gratitude, fill me up and overwhelm me with peace.

Like every song, life is a sequence of notes. A symphony of highs and lows.

Maybe strength is less about carrying the load and more about letting go.

We all start off afraid.

Give yourself time to rest + heal + then rise.

Do not settle in the dirt. Get up and make something from it.

Kind people aren’t doormats.

Boundaries aren’t walls to keep people out, they are tools to let the right energy in.

We heal in a community, take my hand and I’ll take yours.

You don’t need to go far to find beauty. – you just need to start seeing yourself.

Distressed but not defeated.

Better yourself. Don’t belittle yourself.

Mistakes happen to refine us, not define us.

Things do not have to be shiny and loud, to be important.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.

All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary.

As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.