You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

You can have anything you want

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.

Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.

Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who is hurting. Only judge when time passes and the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

I needed sleep. Big squishy bunches of it. Soon.

The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.