I'm terrible at heights. I hate it. I'm glad I'm only 5'7".
The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
Black women. . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.
The music is in minors.
I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener. ' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it.
The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all. '