It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.

My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world

For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I'm Really Proud of My Country

There are no mistakes in life, and it's not about anybody being able to judge you.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

I tried to be strong in the face of obstacles.

[He] used to be so insignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

The end of my marriage meant the end of fighting for something I believed in: my commitment to God to stay faithfully married until death, no matter the circumstances.

Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.

I'm not the government. Nor would I EVER want to be the government - I don't know how you feel about government, but I'm not really happy about them.

Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

There's no tiling moral about beauty.

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.