You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. Its up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.

It's crazy how we always hate the things closest to us.

The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.

The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any force, such as religion, that treated her beauty and her high rank as things of no value.

You know you found the right one when you stop looking for "more.

You know, there's no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl.

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.