I don't date boys. I don't like boys. It's true. I don't change.

Lavender is the new pink. I'll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out.

True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.

People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

Call it a curse, or just call me blessed, if you can't handle my worst, you ain't getting my best

You're not gonna tell me who I am. I'm gonna tell you who I am.

Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.

Still I rise Still I fight Still I might crack a smile Keep my eyes on the prize See my haters tell em hi

Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined

Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.

I'd crossed a border—Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her.

Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.

All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago.

I can't wake up at all without caffeine.

My first thought in moments of darkness and doubt is, "Who can I call? Who can I share this with?" Connection and sharing saves me every time.

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.

It's such a drag to make a movie.