I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to ‘be strong’. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.