Joy Bryant Quotes

Camo never goes out of style as far as I'm concerned.

I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

I love flowy hippie dresses.

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something.

Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

You have to move to your own beat.

It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.

I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.

I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

I kind of do high-low style a lot.

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.