Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us.

I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if I make it to 86.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

One of the reasons I think Barack Obama had the policy he did was purposely to create this flood of refugees from Syria. He wanted them!

I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.