I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.

Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

I will not marry again. There is no need.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.