Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. |
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits. |
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. |
Courage allows the successful woman to fail- and learn powerful lessons- from the failure- so that in the end, she didn't fail at all. |
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. |
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise. |
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well. |
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. |
Effective action is always unjust. |
everything has rhythm. everything dances. |
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. |
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope. |
Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas, |
Have enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time. |
He loved her. ... she can be talking to me about regular things but when she mentions Martin, her voice always falls a little bit and you can sense the intimacy. ... The sweetness of that relationship was always evident. |