Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.Love arrivesand in its train com...
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Preach it, I say preach it.
Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive bu...
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.
This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of...
I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.