“You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.”

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.

My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

Without community, there is no liberation.

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.

You are the one that you are looking for.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Dream big, work hard. My parents brought up Kylie Jenner and me to be workaholics. That’s something I really appreciate.

It’s a shame to call somebody a ‘diva’ simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I’ve made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

I’m no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.

My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it’s true. It’s one of the truest things ever.

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don’t worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.