Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use.
Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you.
In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
We are not our brother’s keeper; we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
It’s amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That’s why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I’m amazed at it. I’m grateful for it.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.
Shakespeare must be a black girl.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
I live in an atmosphere of music.