To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.
I love music. I seriously cannot wait until the day comes that I get to perform around the world for people, I've wanted to do that my whole life.
If you truly love something, fight for it every day, as long as it makes you happy.
Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.
Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.
If you're gonna take in the love, you've gotta take in the hate. Or at least recognize it.
You have to go through tough experiences and go through some battles, in order to be stronger.
I get very heated about anything that is socially unkind.
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.
In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.