“I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.”

I feel more like I’m a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!

Quiet moments recharge me.

I think we deserve people who really, really love us.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

Even if your family isn’t quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.

I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

If you treat me fairly, I’ll give you all my goods.

My life is rich because I have those kinds of people in my life.

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That’s why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love it’s: Wow, life is good.

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

I’ve never met a person I’ve couldn’t call a beauty.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.