This life is a process of learning.

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.

Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.