“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story...”

“The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.”

“No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.”

“Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.”

“We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”

“It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.”