hope Quotes

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.