When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

No more hiding. No more pretending to be something she wasn't. She would wear an older woman's clothes, but she would wear them in such a way that she was honest with herself, with others, and with God. She was a teenager who had been left behind, but she was also one who had seen what was right and acted upon it. She belonged to God now, and she would present herself to him as she really was.

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous.

I like the pharmacy makeup. I always get stuck in that aisle... I've always liked looking at it.

I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.