You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

If haters hadn't made me angry and made me practice, I wouldn't have gotten this good.

If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

You live your life between your ears.

Treating feminism like it's a personal accessory that just isn't appropriate anymore obscures the places where feminism hasn't made strides for people who still need it.

I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

The keyhole is my lens as a writer.

Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.

Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.