"I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it."

"I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that."

"If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters."

"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."

"Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down."

"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine."

"Democracy fascinates me."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."