How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I'll be your mess, you be mine That was the deal that we had signed

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.

I'm an athletic person. But I love my body because I know what it's been through to be what it is. And honestly I'm not going to change for someone that is depressed about their life.

Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

It must be weird having one child.

I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.