It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'

You get educated by traveling.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.

Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.

Sometimes there were troubles but no one can be a hero without the heart being torn open.

For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now

Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.

I don't read anything about myself.

If you defend, rebound and limit turnovers, you're going to put yourself in a position where you can win games

If you fall in love based on zero hours spent with me? That's maybe something to be aware of. That will fade fast. You can't be in love with a google search.