"I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive."

"I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time."

"I'm a survivor. I'm a warrior. I'm a fighter. I'm a queen. I'm a work in progress. I'm constantly evolving. I'm constantly growing. I'm constantly learning."

"No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want."

"I'm a mother. I'm a wife. I'm a daughter. I'm a sister. I'm a friend."