I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.
I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.
My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.
You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?
I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.
I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.
If you like yourself, other people will like you
It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.
If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.
You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.