I used to love writing in my journal.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

Don't chase the money... chase the passion. Because that's what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning.

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

Love every part of yourself. Even the things that frustrate you. They make you who you are!

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.

Words don't means

Loneliness is the poverty of self

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

We don't make determinations about who we love. And that's why I think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong.

It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.

My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.