Why would I try to change who I look like, what my race is? No. No no no. You are beautiful because that’s the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it.

It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.

I’m definitely a girly-girl and I love playing with fashion, but at the same time I will go skydiving with you tomorrow.

Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason.

For my prom I really wanted to wear a bright color - something that was going to pop and stand out.

Coconut oil has always been my favorite. Any dry spots I have I'll put coconut oil on them because it's a natural ingredient and it works better than anything.

If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

I'm more comfortable in heels than I am in sneakers.

I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don't have the perfect body. No one does!

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

Music is nectar for the soul.

Harbour love, not hate - don't let it contaminate your heart and conceal your beauty.

Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.

Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.

Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.

We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.