Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

If you are going to write a book, Make sure it is going to be worth reading .

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.

Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

Where beauty ends is where the artist begins

I definitely support free speech.

To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot. And you know what? You're right.

Humankind cannot stand reality.