Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

My favorite body part? My feet.They're not pretty but they get me where I want to go.

Whatever is worthy of adventure, can only be experienced.

I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don't want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy

Once the Government Accountability Office did a review of food safety systems in other countries and found many things about those food safety systems that were better than ours [American].

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.