I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.

The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.

You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

Dream Song:The heavens Go with me.

I don’t know What else to say I’ve said it many times Oh you’re your gorgeous eyes Are my greatest prize …………………

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

I know my debt of gratitude to the women who went before, I know my responsibility to young women coming forward.

I think we need to be fighting for the working men and women of this country, not the moneyed New York interests.