I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.

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.

We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

You don't want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don't have to.

Yes I'm grown and sexy, and I'm worth the wait. Girls act like I'm the only dude on earth to date.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.

In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.

I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.