I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place. Read Summary
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Read Summary
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Read Summary
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Read Summary
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. Read Summary
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Read Summary
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Read Summary
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! Read Summary
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think. Read Summary
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. Read Summary
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. Read Summary
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. Read Summary
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. Read Summary
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' Read Summary
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Read Summary
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side. Read Summary
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. Read Summary
I created myself. I have taught myself so much. Read Summary
I got my own back. Read Summary
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. Read Summary