This spiel isn't for the rich auntie world traveler, I hear you and I feel you, sis. In some capacity, I relate to you and wish I could be more like you. But I'm not. I'm a lover-girl. I'm not made for these streets, I never last too long out there - they don't want me.

“I thought "If you could go back and meet or talk to your younger self, what would you say? What would you do? Would you warn her of the life that was to come, all of the triumphs and all of the massive L's that turned into the most necessary of lessons? Knowing all that you know now, if you could look back at who you were - would you change anything?"

“It makes me take a look at the way in which I consumed art and what type of art I consumed, I remember when the "Lemonade" visuals came out, I wasn't quite ready to consume them in the way I should've. Yet now, looking at "Black Is King", it's an extension of the way in which Black culture and history is celebrated within Lemonade and I can only see it for the beautiful body of art that it is.”

"Will it all have been worth it?" and "How will I be remembered?" .... and these days - "How will I be remembered?" seems to linger in every thought.

“ Well, in more ways than one, I had to learn the limits of "Boundaries" and the ways in which my life is now dependent upon them. I think all of us did. “

“It is what one could assume to the be the end of a love story and the telling of one tale, told two separate ways. “

“Love is and can be ….. complicated. Yet beautiful. And freeing. Hard. Imperfect. But worth it. So very worth it. No matter the outcome.“

“It's that time of the year where everyone's self-reflecting and planning for the new year ahead. Social media is full of "New Year, New Me" quotes and everyone's making lists of resolutions and planning for who they want to be in the coming year.”

I couldn't help but realize how much scarier the world is as an adult versus how scary Halloween seemed as a child.

“Bodies, more specifically the female body comes in all shapes and sizes and is almost always changing it's form. Yet, we're constantly bashing ourselves and others or attaining to have the one type that's almost not even real.”

“This last year has been full of so much joy and intent because I decided that it would be and made it so.”

“Someone else's journey and how they got their opportunity - will never be mine. And that's okay. I'm coming to terms with the idea that what their success looks like and what my success looks like are two different things …”

Just because someone doesn't show their love for you in the exact way that you do doesn't mean that they don't love you.

“Guess what? For as cute as I am, and as fly as I was dressed, and no matter how hard I was feelin myself .... I just wasn't their type.”

“At first, I assumed that I would be angry because of the outright injustice. It felt almost obvious that it would upset me because I'm Black. And I had a feeling that it would make me emotional because worst of all, it wasn't just a scripted series, it was a true story. “

“What really bothers me is that this was then brought to Coachella. I'm sorry but ... church and Coachella? Make that make sense for me.”

“A lot of us struggle with understanding why we were put on this Earth and what it is that we're doing with our time here.”

“It's taken me quite a while to learn the boundaries that I have to set for myself and I'm still learning. And you'll find yourself in situations where the one time you say no, people act like you've never said yes.”

“It's not easy to sit and reflect and accept your pain sometimes, but I think that having something to believe in, having that little bit of faith in knowing that things will somehow get better, it makes dealing with it all ... a little easier.”