I think my biggest tip - and I consider it a part of my beauty routine - is getting my sleep, without a doubt. I do a true eight hours.

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.

I had a dream about you last night... you sat in a cardboard box and said you were a tree.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?

Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.