Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.

Gun violence is real. People don't come back.

The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.

We have to be respectful to one another.

If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.