All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

You can't be hesitant about who you are.

Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.

I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

A Parent's insecurity is a Child's nightmare

I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about.

I listen and talk to God daily.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

What kind of knife is this?” Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. “It’s all wrong. You couldn’t kill anyone with this.

Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.

Fate will find a way.