Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all.

Present tears water the gardens of future blessings.

The harder you fall, the stronger you rise.

To achieve extraordinary dreams you sometimes have to go through extraordinary nightmares.

Your darkest experiences often lead you to your brightest fortunes.

Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration.

I have failed over and over gain in my life and that is why I succeed.

Learning is a gift, even when pain is your teacher!

You'll be fine. It's only a little jail time. I do this all the time.

we are emotional, vulnerable and hapless individuals. It is an attack on human potential."12

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.