I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.

I think having wild, huge hair, is me being my own version of a lioness.

I remember just looking at this lioness, she was staring at me, and we just had this weird connection.

I've always loved vintage and I never like to have something someone else has.

The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

My main goal was to not tell my mom anything or anyone anything. Even within our family, we like to do it ourselves, we like to be our own boss, and we don't like asking for help.

I love to feel that I'm not above anyone.

This world is going in all sorts of directions, but I think all you can do is get people to think about things in a different way, because sometimes people aren't even thinking.

You're just always growing. I feel like it's been very fast growth, but super exciting and I know I'll look back and feel like 'Yes, things were stressful, but it was also such an exciting time.'

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

Let us be grateful and express gratitude for all those beauties and magic of our life.

No disrespect' is a world away from respect--and admiration.

Do you really want me to show you how you're pushing me, Tessnia? What you do to me?

His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

You can't do good if you don't feel good.