“Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.”

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Don’t let the man bring you down.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

They saw her beaten and broken I saw the birth of a warrior.

Your words may dim her light and make her cry, but you can never douse her flames how much ever you try.

The sadness of our planet has corrupted mankind’s ability to make empowering decisions.

I will never be perfect, nor do I ever want to be seen as such, but when u see me, know you are looking at a fighter. I know you are fighting too so when you see me, I hope you also see you.

No matter what color, race, language you speak, or profession you practice, as women, Empowering yourselves must always come first.

And in the end, she realized she wasn’t just enough. She was so much more.

Magical, extraterrestrial, marvelous, enchanted, brave, beautiful, miraculous, royalty, a warrior, a deity. You are simply everything you are and choose to believe.

Look into her soul, she is way more beautiful than these pretty faces.