Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one’s people.

Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.

What one has to do usually can be done.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Hillary Clinton is somebody of great intelligence. She is somebody who really loves this country, who speaks forcefully and well for American interests and values.

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

I think we have the potential to connect the world in a way that can save hundred of millions of lives. That should be our goal.

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.