Concentration is a form of exclusion, and where there is exclusion, there is a thinker who excludes.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Don’t worry ’bout what people gon’ say. Girl, do what you want to

I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again

I think everybody should be nice to everybody.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, ‘So what.’ That’s one of my favorite things to say. ‘So what

There is nothing more divine than to be free.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.