I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.
All I ever wanted to do was music, and all I've ever asked, as I've gotten to know and discover the world more, is that God would use me in any way to encourage and inspire love and inspire people to bring and give love to each other.
Did you know that true love asks for nothing?
There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
It could have been worse. I could have been born black.
Many of us feel we walk alone without a friend Never communicating with the one who lives within.
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.
If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.
The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on a soft bloom of blood. The girls with hungry eyes who pray each night to wake up as someone else. Urgent, unkissed, wishful girls. Like Kizzy.