Maya Angelou — "I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I get i…"

"I've learned that when a person is hungry, they don't care about anything else. Except maybe if there's pie."

"I'm not a role model. I'm a human being. And I make mistakes, just like everybody else."

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Unless it's bearing a story you told badly."

"I'm not a religious person. I'm a spiritual person. I believe in a higher power, but I don't believe in organized religion."