They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.

But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.