You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.

We have to be women we want our daughters to be.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.