Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them

Feels so good to be quoted

The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders

In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness

The most beautiful thing is that despite the shallow life we sometimes succumb to - the soul has no timeline and it knows what it wants and will yearn within until it seeks the journey

Look within - there is no end!

I am art. I am authentic. I am love. I am me.

It's actually such a tragedy that I live in a world that is inspired by me putting my body or mental state on the line

How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to many others?

In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?

Expand!You are not small. Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!

Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.

Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.

Don't confuse brains with a bull market.

Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?

I forgot how much I loved going to class, actually. But I also forgot what having school homework feels like: stressful!

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.