I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.

I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.

If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.

I love being on tour I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it I love it.

I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.

When you're changing your diet, or you're becoming a vegan, your system will become a bit more sensitive, and you just have to deal with it.

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

I think that with beauty, people jump to the end instead of starting from the beginning with a good lotion or prep.

I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present... gratefully.

I hate being ignored.

I love seeing people come out of darkness.

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

Don't stop believing in miracles.

People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.

My arm extended upward in pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers... When my hand came down from that impassioned gesticulation, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist.