A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
The red kind of symbolizes a lot of things I do in Africa, along with a lot of the work, like the red laces. Everybody that buys a pair can pretty much save a life in Africa.
Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.
I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.
I love "Phenomenal Woman. " The experiences she had of being African American in the U. S. - that itself is a task. I appreciate the hardships Maya Angelou went through for our generation. I'm super influenced by the black people that paved the way for us.
I think I can improve a lot. I think I can get a lot better. I feel like there's much, much more I can do.
When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.
You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.
I remember when I first got into the league, I thought how it would be nice to have a year when you were the best. That means your team is probably winning.
Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away. ' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.