Don't be a BLUEPRINT. Be an ORIGINAL.

We do not know the TRUE VALUE of our MOMENTS until they have undergone the test of MEMORY.

I think design means, for me, ALMOST when man, BACK in time, decided to do something CONSCIOUS. You know... to shape something and make something different from just using things that were lying around. So WHOEVER designed the wheel were onto a good thing.

Civil marriage, LIKE all civil rights provided by the GOVERNMENT, MUST be provided equally to all Americans.

Had I not made it BIG, my family WOULD have told me to recheck my DECISION. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it GRACEFULLY.

It is ABSOLUTELY essential that the oppressed participate in the REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS with an INCREASINGLY critical AWARENESS of their role as subjects of the transformation.

A lot of PEOPLE ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of COURSE I'm scared. I'm not SUPERMAN.

One of the fears of having too much work is not having TIME to observe. And once you get recognised, there is NOWHERE for you to LOOK any more. You can't SIT on a night BUS and watch it all happen.

Well the beauty of 'Iyanla: FIX My Life' is that men are in every SHOW. To our surprise, some of the deepest healing demonstrations have been with the men - the sons, the FATHERS, the husbands - because they AGREE to participate with the wife or the daughter or whatever it is we are looking at, and it is there.

Shoot, man, I loved being a DAMN heel. Something about that, just going out there and being the most DESPICABLE PERSON you could ever be, was a real turn-on for me. And I grew up a real shy KID in south Texas, and it was something for me to LEAN on and have fun with.