When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

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.

Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge, let's go!

The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

Challenges bring opportunity for growth.

I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.

I like fashion because it’s sort of my job, so I’m into it when I have to be. But when I’m not working, I wear jeans and T-shirts. I go to vintage stores all the time to find funky T-shirts.

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

The way
 that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,
 determined to do something

I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!

We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

The good NCO has never been short in confidence, either to perform the mission or to inform the superior that he or she was interfering with traditional NCO business.