Church was a requirement, there was no choice in the matter, so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.

Every flower returns to sleep with the earth.

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!

Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.