Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.
I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.
Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.
I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.
I love "Phenomenal Woman. " The experiences she had of being African American in the U. S. - that itself is a task. I appreciate the hardships Maya Angelou went through for our generation. I'm super influenced by the black people that paved the way for us.
I think I can improve a lot. I think I can get a lot better. I feel like there's much, much more I can do.
When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter. . . to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.