Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Without visions and written goals, what direction are we going to head?

In order to have bread (a symbol of prosperity ) you have to first learn how to plough the land

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

We had been to a couple really awkward office Christmas parties, including one at our production company. It's just a really interesting place, an event that hadn't really been captured.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

In so many things, growth comes from adversity.

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.