I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

A creative person has to #‎ create .

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

When reality was just tilted on an axis, a world continued to spin. This is me.

Preaching vs Teaching:The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

One is always nearer by not keeping still.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University