I am a combination of my entire family.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

I don't think there's anything I can't do. I have no regrets.

I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

To love as God loves means loving not just others like us, but those who are not.

I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

I got three whippings a day from my mama.

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

You might be a redneck if your wife wants to stop at the gas station to see if they've got the new Darrell Waltrip Budweiser wall clock.

By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?