[On asking for things and taking chances] If ‘they’ say no, you’ve already been telling yourself that, so you might as well do it anyway. // Michelle Buteau

She’s got her ticket. I think she gonna use it. I think she gonna fly away. // Tracy Chapman

Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. // Dolly Parton

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. // Madam C.J. Walker

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day. // Will Durant

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. // James Baldwin

They say that ambition is an unattractive trait in a woman. Maybe. But you know what’s really unattractive? Waiting around for something to happen, staring out a window thinking the life you should be living is out there somewhere but not being willing to open the door and go get it, even if someone tells […]

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. // Maya Angelou

The beginning is always today. // Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley