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" In a world that wants women to whisper, I choose to yell. "

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" Unless life is one giant rap battle, you don't need to freestyle your way to success. "

" I have no love for those who consider themselves 'good people' but stand idly by as the world crumbles around them. It's not enough to personally not do damage. If you're present as someone else destroys what's around you and you do nothing, you helped them. "

" Toddlers are couthless. Lord. They are so couth-deficient. They'll tell you, 'Those shoes look like my nightmares' without a second thought because your feelings don't matter to them. "

" I want to create a TV show that people will watch and say, 'Hey, I have a favorite character,' or 'Hey, that person reminds me of myself,' or 'Hey, I've made some of those same mistakes, or those are some of the things I've dealt with.' "

" Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going on only makes matters worse. "

" I need to sleep more. The 'sleep when I die' mantra is not cute. "

" Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people's defenses down, and once they're down, you can discuss some really difficult topics. "

" People use the guise of art, and artistic expression, to do all kinds of hateful things. It's like Trump and everybody else using the guise of humor to say hateful things, the excuse being, 'I was just being funny.' "

" Chicago's one of the most segregated cities in America. Everybody lives in their own silos and vacuums. "

" I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might. "

" What I sacrificed as I pursued my dreams was my comfort, not the lives of other people who looked to me to stay afloat. That alone freed me to take more risks, which did pay off in dividends. Having a safety net is an asset that most people do not have. "

" The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more often than not, people will assume that the person is white. That assumption indicates an uncomfortable truth: in our society, whiteness determines humanity. "

" Putting out a book is absolutely a lesson in vulnerability because it doesn't matter how much of an audience you have. Some people who have giant audiences can't sell books because those audiences don't feel like they need to give them their money. "

" Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege. "

" Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose. "

" Fire Yourself. Outsource some of your life. Because you know what won't be cute on a tombstone? 'Her grind was impeccable, and she did it all by herself.' "

" It took me a while to affirm the fact that I'm actually a really good writer. I couldn't even call myself a writer with a straight face because I didn't take my gift seriously. "

" Being conscious of Global Blackness is knowing that we are not an island of our struggle but a nation of our triumphs. That's blackness to me. "

" I think that if everybody committed themselves to making a better world than how we found it, things would be much better than what they are. "

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" Never underestimate the power of confidence. If you believe you're the dopest thing walking, you might convince people of the same just because you're so headstrong about it as a fact. "

" People love my voice because they say I say what they were thinking but dare not to say because they had a filter or a job. "

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" Under promise and over deliver. People will be pleasantly surprised that you gave more than they expected. And remember that there is always room for us to be better and do better. That's what I am calling for. Not just everybody else - myself, too. "

" I want people to see my color and my culture written all over me, because I am proud of the skin I'm in. It is an important part of my identity. What I don't want them to do is mistreat me because of it. "

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" I am a firm believe in the power of dreams, because the world is basically one giant realization of people's collective dreams come true. We need to dream to aspire to do something that keeps us striving. But those dreams and ideas and wants mean nothing without execution, which doesn't usually happen without a plan. "

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" If a brand will shy away from you because you dare to say that black lives matter, that's probably not a brand you want to work with anyway. "