As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

You get educated by traveling.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

The heart can never break if you believe love never dies.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

No Victory Without Suffering

We need a hit, so here I go.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

At a certain point, if you chase two rabbits, you lose them both.