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

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.

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.

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.

Stop following the con artists, instead become the greatest and brightest artist ever to exist and let others follow your light instead

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au

At moments we are all artists.

A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.

You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.

There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

I'm following a real event and real people.

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.