I love you - but don't touch me.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, everyone can.

Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.

I actually studied Indian classical vocal music.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

I think there is a big group of people out there who disagree about what is going on. They want to have their privacy back, they want to have internet freedom.

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.