I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Déjà vu is simply remembrance of the future.

You think that you're in control of your life.Well, think again.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

Everything in this world depends upon will.

Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

I was brought up with the 3 Ds: Determination, Discipline and Da Lord.

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.