I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

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.

Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.

Know what a symbol is?...Shit that stands for shit.

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

You and I are not allowed to tell Him how much He can hate it (sin).

I don't think that understanding produces change. Learning produces change.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

I never saw no military solution That didn't always end up as something worse