"I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me."
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
"I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive."
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style"
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."