At this point in my career and in my journey as an artist as a woman as a Black woman, and as someone who believes in the universe and the idea of individual purpose, I am realizing that I need to center my intentions and my approach and my point of view from where I am different. I need to live more in the difference of who I am and how I see the world. For so long, the goal has been assimilating and fitting in, and even being a part of community edges away at individualism, but for the goals that I have for myself it’s imperative that I continue to relish being the difference and being the different one.