I grew up in a loving household that taught me how to respect others and love God.

You can be a dreamer, but don't live in your bed.

The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

Make sure you don't become the very thing you find yourself fighting against.

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?

I keep people around me that have the freedom to challenge my heart and motive.

The Bible cares about the systems that create oppression. We see this in the Exodus all the way to Jesus' interactions with Zacchaeus and the prostitute in John 8.

I'm in love, with a higher love!

I love that Jesus showed He cared while at the same time telling the truth.

I keep my eyes and heart bent toward Jesus, therefore no human response can distract me from the Kingdom agenda.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

Every single scar on her soul testifies of the times when she ignored the voice of her spirit

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.

Death is the mother of beauty.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

Taking care of yourself is a nice thing to do. It's not seen as just a girl thing anymore. You see a lot more guys at the gym taking care of themselves, and I think it's going to continue to grow.

"Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.