Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.
The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power… We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn’t feel that it detracts from our femininity.
There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun’. We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids ... but when you look more closely, you realise that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.
Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?' ‘Nothing, precious,’ she said; ‘they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.'
You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
Indeed – why should I not admit it? – in that moment, my heart was breaking.