“All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It’s so deeply ingrained in the culture.”

I’ve had friends get mad at me for not posting what they think I should post on Instagram on behalf of them or our relation.

I didn’t truly understand the depth of my roots until I was old enough to wonder and care.

Everyone has a different route to success, recognition, and peace. Don’t be afraid to move instinctually.

I admire many women that have come before me, heavy influencers such as Oprah, such as Beyoncé, and I’m witnessing the fruit of their work and experiencing their legacy now and they’re not even close to the finish line.

Even if it’s something so simple as filling myself up with uplifting meditation so it’s easier to spread kindness and love by the time I walk out my door and enter the world.

If your not broadcasting how much you love your boyfriend or husband via social media, problems occur in the home and I really think this is happening more than we acknowledge.

I acknowledge that we are all human and are on a journey. We are not born perfect, mistakes are inevitable.

Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.

If you’re not broadcasting what people feel is their truth as it relates to you, well that becomes a problem.

All of my friends are independent in thought, that’s important.

People automatically assume and expect that every moment and every bit of personal data should be broadcasted on social media, especially as it relates to them – and thats just not cuttin’ it for me.

I was pretty much predominantly raised by women, as they make up most of my family anyway.

I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you’ll know everything about them.

I was drawn into acting due to the fact that I could express myself better.

Most people have no idea what Cabo Verde is or even where it is to mention, so I definitely want to make people aware of this beautiful culture.

However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.

I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.

There’s the hype stuff that people love for five minutes and then there’s the stuff that changes cultures and shifts how you look at music. And then there’s that rare point where that hype stuff changes the game.

Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.