Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
