Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.

There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.

My name is Celaena Sardothien, " she whispered, "and I will not be afraid.

The Universe supports doers.

People who represent social organization in a country are a force in that country

It is not by man's power that you are here, but by a greater Power. That Power will stay with you.

It is so beautiful but home is home, and home is best.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.