“I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.”

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn’t work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

I’m proud of everything I do, but I think I’m the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I’d just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.

I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.

Always follow your own path.

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that’s why I became involved in management, bottom line.

Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to… until they really bite us in the butt.

When I want to push myself and do intense workouts, I do that, but I’m not going to do it because anybody thinks I should look a certain way. It’s really more about how I feel and about being healthy.

As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.

You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

Time – the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.

The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

But when you really believe-in yourself, in your dream-you just have to do everything you possibly can to take control and make your vision a reality. No great achievement happens by luck.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.