In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

I believe the children are our future

I'm older, I'm matured... I'm looking forward to the years to come. Good years.

If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.

Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

There can be miracles when you believe.

I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love

Birthday is a sacred-life celebration.

If you want victory in your life you must learn to be alone with your own thoughts and cause them to be correct thoughts!

There are some things I can't control, & that's just the way it is.

The next day we were all shooting up. "Jeez. Look at the size of the cotton he just threw in the spoon." "Yea. What are you trying to prove?" They had a good laugh at my expense.

Footnotes the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.