A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

Night begins to muffle up the day.

You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.