I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

The only way round is through.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Nobody is my boss.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That’s my mission.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.