Don’t limit yourself by what you’ve achieved. All your past achievements are only stepping stones for the greatness to come.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.