I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

I can only live in my truth.

To be silent is to be passive.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

Everything happens when it's supposed to.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

Truth and falsehood pass through the same lips and leave no mark, the devil does not cease to be the devil just because he may have spoken the truth.

And what if there are no damsels in distress?What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?Don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down, whether or not you ever show up?

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.

So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?" "Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him with a club." Amon said.

There's something about New York. You can get a nice feeling of belonging as a writer here. It's probably the best city on Earth like that. I miss the wisecracking of New York.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.