I remember being really young and having this voice inside that told me to trust my gut. And my gut has been really, really strong in my life. It's pretty vocal and it leads me.

You get educated by traveling.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

I want to build a course my mum can enjoy.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.