We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram on it and our china for special occasions had been Madam Walker's china... and the baby grand piano on which I learned to read music had been in A'Lelia Walker's apartment in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.
Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.
Women's handbags are incredibly heavy. You rarely get to pick one up and, when you do, you wonder why anyone carries so much stuff around all day.
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
