God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.
People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.
I don't want to be on the cover of Playboy or Vogue.
I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.
So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this
I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.
[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.
I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I did in my spare time. So the writing and teaching feel in some way to be one thing - the personal engagement and the social engagement good partners.
I feel like social media is a great thing. I try not to go on it too much.