Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.

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.

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

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.

By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins.

(I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

Humor can give you the edge you are looking for.

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.

When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

I had to beat the bags, big time, I had to get out into the den and start screaming and move it through my body.

I’d rather apologize than to be so timid as to never try to do anything smart or brave.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.