“Expression of the heart is the beginning of all great creations.”

Their opinion has no power of you.

Let it go. Your anger will only hurt you.

The waiting will be worth it. The waiting is always worth it.

Forgive yourself. You were young and innocent. Unaware of the shadows.

Don’t let anyone dictate how you spend your time.

The wisest among us are the ones who calmly listen and speak in the face of adversity.

Do not ignore your ‘me days’.

Someone who is insecure is a child still learning to love themselves fully.

We live in a time filled with noise but with exceptionally few listeners.

The greatest battles we’ll ever face are the ones no one sees.

Learning is the most powerful tool we will ever have.

Put aside one hour for yourself everyday. You deserve to enjoy your own company.

Do not waste your time trying to fill your feet in shoes not meant for you.

Imagination is something we take for granted when we are children.

Humble people are not weak. They only have seen pride’s corruption.

Stop comparing your story to someone else’s.

I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it’s sad and smiles when it’s happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin’ takes courage.

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.

I think it’s important for people to be themselves and express themselves through their makeup or their hair or their perfume or whatever it may be.

Ghosting is an expression of extreme anxiety and fear of intimacy. As much as it hurts to be on the receiving end, please know it was never about you.