I love funky shoes and hats. I'm into large-brimmed fedoras with big feathers in fun colors like purple and lime-yellow. I just think hats add pizzazz to your outfits.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

I have more zeal than wit.

And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.