I'm trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.

Just embrace your hair! I really feel like I am not an advocate for people doing what I do. I'm an advocate for people discovering and finding what works for them.

When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite "milkmaid" braid.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.

I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself'.

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.

The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.

Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.

One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.