Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.

I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

I'm into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!

I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'

We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.

I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.

While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good.

Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.