Quotes on Phenomenal Woman

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.