I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.

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.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Hell was never God's intention. It is man's invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no less idolatrous than deifying a statue.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies.