I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.

I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really had a hard time always accepting that at some point I'm just going to turn to dust and ashes and never be again and that the journey would stop. I believe that we are souls, kind of like a version of what our movie presents, and we come here again and again until we arrive at our highest evolution, and what happens after that I don't know.

I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.

I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.