My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.

It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.

Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

I never imagined myself doing this. Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

Girls are stronger in numbers. So yes, I believe girls should stick together whenever possible.

If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...

God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold.

Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.

When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images.

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

I came here...in 1962. I'm not going anywhere.

Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.