Quotes from Joy Bryant

Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something.

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.

I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!

I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

I love flowy hippie dresses.

Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

My husband's a stunt man, and he dragged me to stunt driving school with him because I hate driving and he felt that it would help to make me feel more comfortable. And it did in certain ways, and in certain ways I'm still not.

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."