I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exi… - Maya Angelou

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

You see, baby, you have to protect yourself. If you don’t protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you.” I thought about that for a second. She was right. A woman needs to support herself before she asks anyone else to support her.

I believe that there lives a burning desire in the most sequestered private heart of every American, a desire to belong to a great country. I believe that every citizen wants to stand on the world stage and represent a noble country where the mighty do not always crush the weak and the dream of a democracy is not the sole possession of the strong.