I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to you. . .
We all possess exactly what we need to be our greatest selves.
Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.
Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.
For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.
There's always that one person, That will always have your heart. That one person for me is you.
I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.
Near a war is always not very near.