My mom is a yoga instructor: 100% black with dreadlocks.

Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs.

Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous, ' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.

Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

I love Ralph Lauren. As I travel so much, I prefer to shop online.

I always want off-the-beaten-path, Anthony Bourdain-inspired travel.

On a normal day, I love a shift dress with flats and a little cropped jacket. That, for me, is my travel wear if it's not too chilly - you can throw a scarf over your legs if it's cold on the plane!

I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American, and if my name is going to be on something, I'm going to have my say.

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.

When I was 13 years old, my mom had me start getting facials in my hometown of Los Angeles.

Tell me what’s the differencebetween hope and waitingbecause my heart doesn’t knowIt constantly cuts itself on the glass of waitingIt constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

You're not my first. You don't deserve that category. Being first means others will come after you-that we will eventually end. And we don't. You're my last, because you never left.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

As long as we're together, I'm ready for anything.

If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.

The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.

Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.