I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.

I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.

Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

I'm not here for the money

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

I want my next girlfriend to be my wife.

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

There are no answers, only cross references.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.