I think people get lost in becoming someone other then themselves when they spend too much time in the presence of those who don't bring out the best in them.

It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.

I said, but I have to go, there are so many places calling my name.

You will meet many opponents in your time that will come face to face with your flaws, trust the chaos ~ pain & confusion is the pathway to break open and become free.

Know your worth and love yourself in such a way that anyone who is no good for you, wont be able to reach you.

You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that falls apart.

Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.

I am a wild woman. it would take a warrior to tame my spirit.

You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.

Sometimes all it takes is a little watering everyday and a sunny day to follow, that's how weeds become flowers and new dawns rise - why would it be any less then for a human life?

what once cause catastrophe in my life has now become the catalyst for my direction.

Don’t complain. Be a good person in this wrong world and transform it.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are and to do what no other can do.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.