What's important is that my family and I are all good.

You get educated by traveling.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

Only the Truth of God can redeem humankind.

The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau.

Man must choose his world

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative".

Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.