“It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too.”

I’ve always considered myself a person of color.

It’s easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.

I don’t really use any face products anymore because they make me break out. I like natural remedies. I usually put honey on my face. Sometimes, I put sugar in it so it’s an exfoliant, too. I add raw coconut oil, which is good as a face wash and a moisturizer.

No matter where you are, what point in your life you’re at, it’s not the end.

I’m into crystals and good energy and harnessing more. It’s just like prayer. It helps you be grateful, think about good things, and keep that positive energy around you.

I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn’t believe in myself.

My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer – it’s really strong. We’re deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I’m very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.

Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life.

Aliens are definitely real.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

I’m constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself.

I’ve never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school – I’ve always done my own thing.

Every day is women’s day.

When I start something, I have to finish it, and I’m a super perfectionist, too.

When I was little, I went through a lot of phases, like any girl.

I’m just inspired by life and, growing up, I listened to all types of different sounds, genres, and areas of music.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.

I’m trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it’s not just them at war – it’s also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That’s my bucket-list.

You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.

I come from a middle-class family, but we are open-minded people.