“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”

Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

I love you now for what we’ve already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that’s to come.

Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

Everyone has their own destiny. Not everyone makes the choice to follow it. And I’m lucky I did.

They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

If they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.

You always have a choice. It’s just that some people make the wrong one.

It’s impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you’d come back to me.

Connecting with nature to find peace in a chaotic time.

Wearing a hijab never made me feel any more conservative – it made me feel safe. Then, after 9/11, I became the butt of a joke on the playground, so I stopped wearing it. Kids can be really cruel when you’re the only black girl in your Girl Scout troop.

I feel like when you say ‘activist,’ you have to have so much clarity, and I don’t always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I’m trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be.

I like my visuals to feel like movies.

I just sing what I’m feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.

Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.

But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one’s own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.