When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.

Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.