I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.

After you pray, accept, adapt and move on, .. That's what winners do.

Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

To play with Zinedine Zidane was the biggest honour I have had in my career...

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

We've all been should upon enough.