That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

I like people who don't tell you what you want to hear.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black women. But right now I don't know what's next. I hope that there are more opportunities to come my way.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.