Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.

When your shoulds finally become musts, that's when you will achieve great change in your life.

You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.

To be happy, follow the heart not the thoughts.

Ladies Commit, There's A Wedding In It For You.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.