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"I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me."

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."

"You are what you are by what you believe!"

"I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life."

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

"I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull."

"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."

"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control."

"If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are."

"For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school."

"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."

"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have."

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."

"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."

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