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Faith is the flip side of fear.
In every crisis there is a message.
There are no meaningless experiences.
Self-love is the starting point for everything.
Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.
It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice
I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.
Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.
Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.
The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world.
We will never finish everything on our to-do lists. It's not possible, and that is life!
Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.
Parents really just need support and not to be blamed and not to have fingers pointed at them.
We have to fill our hearts with gratitude. Gratitude makes everything that we have more than enough.
Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
The things I need from my husband and he needs from me are minimal - respect, support when needed, kindness, love.
Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.
See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.
Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity.
Take the reins of your life in your hands every day. Get up and put a smile on your face, and feel grateful for this gift in your life.
Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you will have within you to give.
We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.
When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.
As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose.
Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.
What we still haven't done is really learned and embraced our history. When we do that, we'll no longer be doubtful and fearful that we are weak and incomplete.
We have to get up, and we have to move our bodies. We need to move! There is no way to be healthy or happy - no way - without having some kind of exercise regimen.
Historically, black women have suffered tremendously, but today's black women are the triumph. We have choices, and that's what freedom is all about: having the power to choose.
We women feel we are here to serve. That's the mistake we make. We may have children, husbands, lovers, bills, responsibility. Those things don't own us, but too often we let them.
We live in an abundant universe. Everything we need to take care of ourselves, those things are all around us. Don't focus on that economy. Don't believe that there's not enough for you.
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.
when asked, most folks will gladly tell us about ourselves, who we are, what we're feeling, and where we should be heading. And if we don't honor ourselves by listening to our lives, we'll believe them.
There's a lot of rhetoric out here, a lot of talk about giving young people opportunity. Just looking so deeply into the RFK Children's Action Corps, I can see that they are really, really living that mandate.
When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.
God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.
Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work -- and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.
We need a new order of ministers to stand in pulpits. It's not enough to sing and praise God in worship services. Any religion that doesn't encourage us to work together to end the needless suffering all around us is godless.
We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don't easily express our heartache or show our wounds.
It's hunger. It's homelessness, often. It's underfunded, under-resourced schools. It's abuse beyond the chilling. It's having overwhelmed parents and caregivers. Those are the things that young people are struggling with beyond our view.
We don't have time to waste. Our communities are crumbling; our children are under siege. Failing schools and a for-profit prison-industrial complex are sucking the life out of black homes and communities. We are not going down like this!
The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.
When I joined 'Essence,' I was a young, single mother. I was 24. I hadn't gone to college. I wasn't making any money at 'Essence' - what was it, $500 a month - and I was struggling. So I was always looking down the road, always hoping for a better, you know, tomorrow.