I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There is no shame in black beauty.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

His lordship and I are...opposite sides of very different coins.

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine.

Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.

The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.