You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Theres beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, thats harder than others.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

Everything you do matters to all of us forever.

Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

It's wrong to discriminate based on skin color when there are so many other reasons not to like someone.

Most of us think we've had more trouble than we deserve.

I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.

Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.

Where do I go from here?

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.