I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

Being an Image Activist simply means to be in action of supporting, celebrating and creating honest images of a group you care about, or yourself.

My approach is to be honest-really honest-and consistent. That is what any growth will take. It is an issue I think [young] generation can be courageous enough to comb through.

I've been waiting years to have a conversation with Franchesa [Ramsey]! She's so funny and wicked smart. So that's really going to be the experience it's going to intelligent, layered, and hilarious.

The more you love, the more love you are given to love with.

Historically a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star.

We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.