My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.
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Mothers are daily miracles we sometimes take for granted.
A mother’s lap is the best place from which to launch a life.
The most important person to thank is…my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.
When I quit The New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts….But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.
My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
…[B]e faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Faith is like electricity. You can’t see it, but you can see the light.
I have great faith that there’s a master plan and that even if we don’t understand it and even if it’s heartbreaking, there’s a reason for everything. And I hold on to that.
Faith isn’t the ability to believe what you see. It’s the ability to see what you believe.
Faith is not merely hope, and it must be more than belief; faith is a knowing of the heart.
