Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

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But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.

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They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

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Relationships change us and make us grow.

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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.

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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

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