Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

Forbearance is a form of generosity.

We got a little rule back home: If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

I'm very involved in photographing America now, so I don't think of faraway places, as I did when I was young.