Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

If we understand we need each other, we will keep together.

Make good boundaries your goal. They are your right, your responsibility, your greatest source of dignity.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.