Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

Between love and a friendship, the crucial difference is that when the love breaks you will realise that the friendship is what kept the two of you together.

I'm keeping the pixie. I hope I inspire people... it's really cool to have short hair.

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.

I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.

I want to really start focusing on what I want to accomplish and what it is I want to achieve, but not micromanaging this or that and focusing on the little things.