I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

You can have anything you want

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

Hecuba had the mistaken notion, just like my poor mama, that all a girl had to do was to get married and all her problems were solved overnight.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity it's not very ladylike.

But I also think it's about a person's personality that draws people in, too, not just their singing.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

Yet how proud we are, In daring to look down upon ourselves!

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.