When I get up and work out I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly who invests in them but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people women and men as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Oh if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

My mother was very strong. Once she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us the love of Black women for each other.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor James Cagney you hit your mark you look the other guy in the eye and you tell the truth.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time I will give it up to their wisdom but not after to any one's judgment till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

This land which we have watered with our tears and our blood is now our mother country and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

And when the world is created it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another relating to God in the finite realm.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.