Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

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.

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

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.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Just what I predicted, ” he smiled. “Run, little sheep. Run. For soon, the big bad wolf will have you right where you belong, ” Crispin whispered as he manifested out of the school.~Crispin~

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.

The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.

Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.