“I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.”

“Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.”

“I don't want to speak negativity into existence.”

“Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.'”

“My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.”

“Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.”

“If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.”

“Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.”

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”