Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.
Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.
You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.
Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.
Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.
I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?
Don't stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare.
You owe it to yourself to live beautifully. And I am.
A woman is more than the sum of her parts.
What I see is trying to make sure that everybody thinks you have more than what you actually have. What’s the point if you actually don’t have it? If you don’t have it, then you don’t have it. Have what you have. Enjoy that . . . The craft is everything. Don’t be afraid of not being the wealthiest person in the room. Be the smartest person in the room. Be the slickest person in the room. Be the most creative person in the room. Be the most entertaining person in the room. Just be in the room.
I'm being all of me, and it feels stupendous. I don't want to leave this feeling.
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.
God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.
Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?
Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.
Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.
In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.
I'm looking for someone who works as hard as I do. Who loves their work as much as I do, so at the end of the night we have something real to talk about, something exciting that makes our blood flow and boil.
Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.
All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.
To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.
One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.
I am making an effort to truly live. I don't mean to imply by that that I haven't been alive before but, with my son being here and such a powerful force in my life, he's given me a freedom to be more. I think that sometimes we can get stuck, and just the fact that he's here says so much to me about my own existence. I didn't think I'd be able to have children, and this level of blessing is something I can't even put my finger on.
