I wish I was your favorite girl, I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world, I wish I was your favorite smile, I wish the way I dressed was your favorite kind of style

The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up.

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves.

The more you relate to something or somebody speaks to you, it means more. I think that putting yourself out there like heart-on-sleeve, is really important.

People are scared. People are generally xenophobic - they're scared of what's different. If you're ignorant as well as scared, then you might end up hating something that you're scared of.

I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.

I can watch a sunset on my own.

What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.

A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem.

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around.

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

In black and white you suggest, in color you state.

I'm really clear about my priority in life-it's being a mom.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.