Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It’s time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we’re all in the same boat.
If you want to know the value of vaccines, just spend some time in a clinic in Africa. The faces of the mothers and fathers say it all: vaccines prevent illness and save lives.
Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.
Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn’t mean that from time to time, you aren’t going to do what is good for the company.
Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.
Don’t get discouraged with your skin when it doesn’t do what you want it to do… Give it some time. That’s the only way to get to know yourself.
A revolution is not an event. It’s a process. And it takes its time.
My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
I opened Leith’s in Notting Hill in 1969 and it eventually worked its way into being awarded a Michelin star. At the time, there were a few women running small bistros – but I was the first woman to have a ‘serious,’ expensive restaurant.
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
Everybody has an angle. The only time I say no to an interview is when someone says they don’t have an angle. I know right away that that’s not honest.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it’s always a tough thing and hard to get over.
Time heals everything. Time corrects everything. Time is the solution to every problem, I believe. A lot of things can happen with time. All that has to be there is the intention.
I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.
I don’t need equal time, I am equal time!
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
The most precious resource we have is time.
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
