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I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground.
Sep 10, 2025
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
The past has no power over the present moment.
Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Give light, and people will find the way...
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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