If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

My husband keeps me really honest.

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day, with an artist who does inspire me.

Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together...

I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.

A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.