"My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff."

"Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it."

"There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part."

"I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever."

"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block."

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."

"Better to be disliked than pitied."