I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.

Be confident, and just do it. It's all about not questioning what everyone else is thinking, since they're probably looking to others to know what is or isn't cool.

Im a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

Turquoise is my birthstone; Im a Sagittarius.

I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.

That's my approach to makeup in general, highlight something, what you love about yourself, but don't cover anything up, or distract from what you actually look like.

Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could.

If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest

Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.

A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times