“My ability to adapt has always stood out. I’ve been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I’m familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.”

Money is important yes, but not the most important. I don’t need money to smile or breathe.

I soak up personalities and energy. I can identify with anything because truthfully everything that makes up the world is characterized in some way in my family.

My sister is 4 years older than me and I’ve always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.

I could use my voice – my entire body – not just my looks, height, and physical expressions.

I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother,

Social media is driving the culture, it drives peoples minds literally.

I always say that you are who you are and you can’t hide it.

If you can make it through the age of social media and come out with the same friends and lover, kudos!

Ethnic stories specifically need variety in content period.

The difference lies in the intention behind wanting money. Your reasons for why you want to create more money is typically why you’re ambitious to get it. You’re either genuinely ambitious or selfishly hungry.

Super-stardom doesn’t scare or excite me. It’s just another ingredient added to my world.

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.

Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble

A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole’s charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.

So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it’s something that I’m familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.

He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

I’m lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I’ll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.