I'm a multi-faceted human being.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

There ain't no "baby mama drama" up in this Vortex, homie!

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

If I were a food, I'd be a Chili because you know.. I'm hot.

All a singer needs is voice and expression anything else you have is an asset to your profession.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.