"And the works of artists in clay, marble, and iron, and on canvas are enduring, and eagerly sought for. But the most wonderful of all, the power of the human voice, goes to the winds and is lost forever."

"The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want."

"You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them"

"When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.thumb|Visit of Iyanla Vanzant to HUD (cropped)"

"241 quotes from Iyanla Vanzant: 'Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of sel."

"The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructive, but I'm now at a crossroads. I've accumulated a lot of followers, and it's great, but I'm also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much."

"My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America."

"When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere."

"I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay."

"For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not."

"I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime."

"I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill."

"I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down."

"Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence."

"The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue."

"I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill. Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence."

"Guinevere van Seenus, who I have photographed for more than 20 years, was one of the most important muses. Delicate but decisive, masculine but feminine, a hymn to creativity, imagination and dreams. (Paolo Roversi)"

"One of the greatest revelations of my life is: I can choose my thoughts and think things on purpose. In other words, I don’t have to just think about whatever falls into my mind"

"I want you to know and really understand that anyone who has been abused can fully recover if they will give their life completely to Jesus."

"Forgiveness is not a feeling,it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before Gode."

"Just deciding to forgive isn’t enough because willpower alone won’t work,we need divine strength from God."

"Praying for those who have hurt us is vital to successfully forgiving them."

"You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are."

"Self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we’re so focused on what the other person did wrong."

"Unforgiveness finds excuses to talk about what people have done to us, and we’ll tell anyone who will listen."

"I loved it, A lot of drivers off the tee, which I think is great. A lot of character. Greens are massive, so a lot of long putts. And they’re fast … probably a lot of 10-feet-and-in putts for par and long lag putts."

"We didn’t have missteps, but when the book opens with the incident at the luncheon, we both thought it was horrible, but Marie thought it was more horrible than I did. … If Mary had to count and remember all the slights in her life, she wouldn’t have been able to move on."

"The most important thing an author can do is to be authentic, to be true to the times and the character - what the character would say and do. To be called “Black” during Mary’s time would have been an insult."

"I try to lower my expectations because you get pretty excited. You have a lot of family and you want to win, you want to play so well and do well, But I’ve learned to calm down a little bit and lower my expectations."

"Gianna didn't have the chance to reach her full potential before the helicopter crash that killed her, her dad and seven others,:"

"He's clicking and pausing. 'Look, look, look, Lis, watch, watch."

"We know what Kobe's accomplished, but Gigi hadn't, she didn't have the full opportunity to do that,"

"Adding that Gianna had the mentality to succeed like her dad. "Mambacita was going to make it,"

"Referencing her NBA dad's "Black Mamba" nickname. "She was going to be in the WNBA."

"It's true but I think it's also because Gigi wanted to see certain players, and she was into it,"

"Remembers Bryant telling her how good of a player Gianna was. "He was like, 'Lis, like, she got it,'"

"“I think we have to look at the fact that during this World Cup, we were coming off back-to-back victories. You can’t ignore the way this program has led (soccer) for over twenty-plus years from one bad result. There’s so much talent in this country.”"

"“Whoever the next coach has amazing players to choose from, and it’s about putting them in a position to be successful.”"

"It is who I am. Who I have always been. I have embraced this attitude as a young girl. They used to call me a tomboy when I was small. I thought that label was kind of insulting because it was taking away the fact that I was a girl and a woman. Calling girls a tomboy makes it seem that you are less of a woman just because you have athletic skills."

"“It’s the standard that this program and team has set.”"

"I just went ahead and followed what was true for me because it was sincere. I figured out that people were wrong judging me. The inner authentic choice I made was to follow my passion in this way. Very early on, I realised that I should not assume that the judgments, culture, or even traditions are right for me."

"The more you prepare before you start, the more you will be relaxed. You have to recognise that you might be scared, you might be stuck, not knowing what to do. You might feel uncomfortable. You might get distracted by something in the audience. Mostly, I just accept that if that happens I am not going to try to resist it."

"During our Zoom interview just before Labor Day. She notes that nothing less that winning each World Cup is the expectation placed on the USA’s women."

"The most meaningful moments were moments when, like on a Friday night at rehearsal, I decided to stop and look around at the people who I loved so much and just make a memory of it. Nothing special — we were all just sitting around, and Mikey [Day] was doing a bit or Alex [Moffat] was doing a bit, and we were catching up and just looking around at the crew. Those are the moments that meant the most."

"So I am scared, pumped, not sure what to do. If that happens, I take a very quick pause, a sort of a reset button which I call a mental shift. I stop. I make a quick assessment."

"My relationship is just as normal as anyone else’s. I go about my day the same way anyone else would -in the same way, a heterosexual couple would go about their day. I wake up in the morning. I tell my wife I love her. I go to work. I come home. We cook dinner together. This is normal. As any husband would love his wife, or any wife would love her husband -that’s the same way I love LaTaya."

"Telling Lorne was really hard."

"This is fresh. It only happened two months ago."

"I felt ashamed, because we’re not supposed to, and there’s something unprofessional about it."

"I do not climb to put myself in real danger like that. I climb because it is a lifestyle. It is fun. If I had to risk my life every time I climb, I would not think that would be fun"