You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

I'm attracted to things that make me want to be a better person.

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

Our challenges make us unique, and how we deal with them makes us unique.