“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

“Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you n...”

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”

“Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to sh...”

“And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead t...”

“Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes...”