I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

I've always been into looking different.

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

Everyone thinks their mom is a superhero, and l feel like I want to be just like my mom. A superhero. She’s a very strong lady.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.

I'd like to be the Princess. But I want a nice black crown, not a pink crown because I hate pink. I wanna be the naughty Princess from Roc Nation.

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.

Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

Do not worry about your career. Concern yourself with your vocation, and that is to be lovers of Jesus.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.