Beggars can't be choosers.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The more the merrier.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

Don't be an Extraordinary, you have to be extra in Extraordinary

I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I've done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that's what they should be. You shouldn't be beating yourself up.