By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

I listen to gospel music.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

The baby's beauty lies on its' pure-hearted.

Do not open that door until I'm in my room. I may be old and losing my hair, but I still want to look nice for a handsome man.

Do not try to prove that you are the most important person or that you are the lord’s anointed

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.

Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

You're looking good today Bret. Very hot... hotter than Jemaine. You have a refined bone structure, while Jemaine's facial features are too deep set to be classically handsome.

Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement.