I had to work 10 times harder. People expect so much of you, because they want to see if you can strive and stand on your own.

Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

When you make pain look this good it never wears out.

I'm careful with my heart. I don't take crap from no one these days. I put my foot down. Being a woman, you deserve heaven and earth.

I feel like, if it's supposed to happen, then it'll happen. God will send me somebody special, whenever the timing is right, so I'm just patient.

I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth.

I'll be stuntin like my daddy.

I think nowadays we're often sidetracked by what somebody got popular doing with all due respect to what they do, but it should be about the talent.

Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.