Quotes About Influence

'Ebony's Power 100 list highlights African-Americans who exemplify brilliance in the fields of entertainment, arts, business and others.

Everybody knows that Steph Curry changed the game. He's such a great athlete, but that's all we see on the TV, on the highlights on social media. I wish we could see what type of people they are more, because that's the leadership to me, that's the inspiration to me.

Using food as a way of understanding empire is highly effective. Food knows no barriers of race, gender or even time.

Back home in Germany, football people think very highly of Arsene Wenger. They listen to what he has to say and admire his achievements.

Big money has hijacked our politics.

Likud has been hijacked by a group of extremist settlers.

Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.

When I write, I like squeezing as many words as possible into each bar - I've listened to the Fugees and Lauryn Hill for as long as I can remember, so probably a big chunk of it subconsciously comes from that.

One of the reasons I wanted a sax in the band was that I loved Fats Domino's 'Blueberry Hill.'

I loved Lauryn Hill; I loved the Fugees.

I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a dream.

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

When I started singing, I was covering Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and all the girl groups of the '90s. It's just what I would listen to and what I was singing when anybody asked me to sing for them.

'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' happens to be my favorite album.

I was a huge Lauryn Hill fan; that was all my mom would listen to in the car.

One of the things I love most about the Capitol Hill beat is that I have regular access to the lawmakers I cover.

Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.

Not one woman had any reason to vote for Hillary besides that she is a woman. They all wanted to vote for her... but didn't know why.

The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party.

Every major life decision in my 20s and 30s - when to get married, where to buy an apartment, whether to freeze my eggs until after the election - had revolved around a single looming question: What about Hillary Clinton?

Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.

The idea that Hillary Clinton wants to do to Central America what her husband did to Colombia is troubling.

My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'

Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony.