I liked the idea of using this mega-star [Beyoncé ] to talk about all those things on the tiny scale of my life.

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what's the worst that can happen?".

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.

I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you.

If you're happy you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account.

The easiest way to get your body back after baby is to not gain too much weight during your pregnancy!

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States.

I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.

Hands are the heart's landscape.

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.