There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

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.

All the music I write is a search for myself.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Unless you learn how to love yourself first, you will not be able to truly love anyone else

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.

I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.

Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.

Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence