I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

The most thankful person is the most fully human..

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

there are some things in life a person just cant know.

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

The only person I can change is the one in the mirror..

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives..

I'm kind of a private person in a way..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person..

I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home..

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things..

I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..