When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

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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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As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

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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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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

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

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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

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Relationships change us and make us grow.

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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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