“The meaning we give to memories color our reality.”

People who understand our silence also understand our words. People who understand our silence make us feel most at home.

You don’t need an apology to get closure. The damage is your closure.

My success starts with self care.

Our mind is very powerful when we allow it to be.

I always had a choice.

Self awareness is confidence.

I am comfortable being myself.

We are not what happened to us. We are what we are holding on to.

The events that broke us lead to today. Why dwell on the past when we have been given today?

When we value ourselves we align with people who share with us rather than only receive.

Sometimes a realization is all we need to let go of a limiting belief that no longer serves us.

Wisdom is knowing when to take a step back before moving forward.

If it compromises the relationship you have with yourself, then it is too expensive.

By acknowledging my darkness I embrace my light.

My life, my unique work of art.

Self awareness enables us to let go of people who don’t serve us and whom we don’t serve.

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

I told the stars about you. I have reached the moon for you. Those two eyes of yours can swallow the deepest oceans. I asked the white clouds to fill us with colors. But soon I realized it was all you. Stars, moon, clouds, raindrops, universe. It was all in you.

Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.

You know, it’s no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone.

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

Before pride waves a white flag, it waves all other colors.