Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Our culture puts a lot of pressure on the idea that a woman's self-worth is defined by her looks. It's just awful. And they also put a tremendous pre….

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.

I don't pull, I just receive..

You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump..

Be bold. You gotta be bold..

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health..

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - ….

Everyone has a right to rest so as not to injure themselves..

I'm always geeking out about something..

I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was jus….

My drive is something that I don't fully understand..

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you'r….