I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

You get educated by traveling.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

Man’s noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

You've always been my safe place, my escape when life gets crazy. You're my calm through every storm.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.

Abraham Lincoln got shot and died, Freed the slaves so they put him on the five.