I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

The female body is a beautiful thing, and it should be embraced and celebrated.

We're able to choose our candidate not based on gender or sex or anything else other than their ideas.

Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.

It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.