"Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be."

"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"True wisdom begins when you realize the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish."

"Courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."