I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.

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.

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'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

I've never kissed an art forger before" Lord Huntington to Eliza Somerton in "An Artful Seduction

While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

There's no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.

Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?

There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.