“Where do you go when you don’t know where to go?”

You don’t walk away from the pain. You embrace it, feel it and work with it.

You’re too busy leaving while I’m too busy making you stay.

Forever the girl who hides behind the shadow o the noisiest crowd.

You are not downgrading. Your slate is being cleaned for the next scene.

Choose your battles one way or another. The world is overwhelming af already.

Go where your heart beats faster and your laugh gets louder.

With all the people in my life , I still end up saying I am alone.

When we start accepting ourselves as whole, the magic happens.

I thought I’ve moved farther only to find out that I’ve built my walls higher.

Having a different opinion doesn’t mean you are wrong.

Don’t lose self love in the process of finding love.

Choose your battles one way or another. The world is overwhelming af already.

What your eyes read is what your mind eats.

When you focus on what truly matters to you, the universe will give you more than what you wish for.

I never fought back. I have always endured.

You do not have to be similar to fit in. Puzzle pieces that match are never the same.

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

Social media is not the place to work out your problems with people.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.

I usually mug up my Telugu dialogues much before going to the sets every day.

Spring blooms, even in places where life once ended.

If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.