You know you were with the lessers, true?" Butch lifted one of his busted-up hands. "And here I thought I'd been to Elizabeth Arden.
You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
I don't believe in luck. . . . It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me.
Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.
I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.
I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet!
It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.
The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.