I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

An old novel has a history of its own.

Cacao is rich in happy phenethylamine chemicals called PEA. These compounds have been associated with feeling good and falling in love.

Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.

If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.

Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

In San Francisco, Haloween is redundant.