"I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance."

“So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn't see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over.”

“I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking spiritually and mentally, and we help make sure that each one is on their game for their spouses.”

Source : "Tisha Campbell & Duane Martin: Through the Fire". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

“Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.”

“We govern what the public think about.”

“Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

“It is not something I must do but something I want to do....”

“Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.”

“To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.”