I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

I would love to do a record with Usher.

Conversation without you trying to be sexy can still come off as very sexy. Trust me!

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.

I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.

Honestly, I think dating is hard. Period.

In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long time.

The gospel is not weight, it is wings. It carries us.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.