I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.

Women can't do everything at the same time we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic that really comes out of the culture that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us the love of Black women for each other.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

Your law may be perfect your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill and yet without individual acquaintance with men their haunts and habits the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult slow and expensive.