I know how to make other women look beautiful: from hair to makeup to wardrobe. So, I feel that I have a gift with imaging, and that's kind of fundamental to the music video process.

I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby.

Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."

I think it's a beautiful thing when you wear a uniform or a garb which represents a group of people, because what it immediately symbolizes is oneness, togetherness.

The last step will be letting my hair go natural. That's when you'll know I'm free.

I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

Do not focus on money, instead focus on a problem that needs to be solved for the world..money will follow you as a bi-product.

Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn't, I suppose. One pretends it isn't happening.

When we overemphasise miracles, we think we are preaching but we are emphasizing on the wrong thing.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself.

Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.

Make sure with the time that you have, you really make an impact on people.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven