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.

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.

Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.

Anything that is conceivable is possible.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

If I'm lucky, I can do a facial once a month.

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.

Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

I'm kicking myself in the rear end every day, saying, 'Did I really book this many shows? What am I doing?'

Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.

If you want my body and you think I'm sexy come on sugar let me know.