There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.

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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

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They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

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Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

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You can't be hesitant about who you are.

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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

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