"I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar."

“There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.”

Source : "Gowdy to first-hand account Benghazi eyewitnesses: You will be protected". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 30, 2013.

“Money isn't everything. I've got money and I've got everything, and they're not the same.”

“There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.”

Source : S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.4, Booklassic

“There is great freedom in simplicity of living.”

“There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.”

“You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

“I think you always take pride in how you play.”