The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow.
One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.
Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
I can only be the best version of myself and understand that the only way that we as a people can heal is to understand that the next person's journey may not be your own, but it doesn't mean that you have to marginalize them in any way.
I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.
I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.
I'm attracted to things that make me want to be a better person.
Our challenges make us unique, and how we deal with them makes us unique.
I have experienced loss in my life, but the thing that brings you back is your faith.
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.
I can only live in my truth.
You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
You just keep moving forward and doing what you do, and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
To be silent is to be passive.
Because we all come from different circumstances, our life experiences really color how we view things.
I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
I do believe that everyone has something to contribute.
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
At 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that." You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you.
Everything happens when it's supposed to.
I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
