I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

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.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

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

Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge.

I pulled myself back before wind could knock me down. I survived the wind and my own person.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

The reliance on social media as the avenue to get peer insight continues to increase.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces And Feelings To Improve Communication And Emotional Life.

If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.

Hold on to your knickers, girls!