My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

I can only live in my truth.

To be silent is to be passive.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

Everything happens when it's supposed to.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

She wanted him, but she didn't want to want him.

Remember the unremembered

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

Are any of yall into girls like I am les-bi-anest

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

When I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.