Every Day you should reach out and touch someone.
We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can’t do.
Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.
Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.
If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.
It’s so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I’ve never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, ‘Thank you, Lord!’ I’m grateful to be alive, and I’m going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.
I’m grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.
I keep on dying, Because I love to live.
Love liberates. Love – not sentimentality, not mush – but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, “Don’t do that, baby.” And the person will know you’re not preaching but teaching.
I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth.
The truth will lead me to all.
If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.
My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.
The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.
Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one’s bones and cragginess of one’s once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.
If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as heck we should never teach.
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn’t really, absolutely know what whites looked like.