Never dull your shine for somebody else.

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

There have been top supermodels in the past that weren't as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss.

My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me, and a book doing well is important because it buys you another one. Not because of the money but if you keep doing interesting work, work that people like, they will want you to do more, and offers that are interesting come in.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.