I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.

He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen. If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.

I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.

Today, begin to believe right by choosing to know and believe in the powerful truths of God’s Word and in His love for you.

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.