--Nikki Giovanni
~~ "There is really a very little difference between people; it is called attitude; and it makes a really big differnece. The big difference is whether it's positive of negative."
--W. Clement Stone
~~ "Someone was hurt before you; wronged before you; hungry before you; frightened before you, beaten before you; humiliated before you; raped before you; yet, someone survived."
--Maya Angelou
~~ "I make my own decisions and couldn't imagine anyone else doing that, because I am in control of my destiny. And if anything happens, or if a mistake is ever made, it's because it's something I chose to do."
--Janet Jackson
~~ "I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel."
--Gloria Naylor
~~ "No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow."
--Alice Walker
~~ "People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do."
--Michelle Ventor
~~ "A woman is the intuitive perception of truth reflected as love in the soul."
--Charles Filmore
~~ "You cannot belong to someone else, until you belong to yourself."
--Pearl Bailey
~~ "To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living."
--Alvin Ailey
