Life is a series of recoveries.

God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.

We don't help people by showing them our trophies. We help them by showing them our scars.

I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

The things you're crying about today, you might be laughing about in ten years ... and then again ... maybe not.

It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.

How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!

I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them.

Our preachers weren't always right, but they were never in doubt.

Keep Moving Forward

Can't be loyal to everyone, it's a conflict of interest.

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.

I have traveled a lot around the world and have seen a lot of people come to my programs... [and it made me realize] that people of all ages - from little children to elders - listen to my nasheeds.

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.

During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.

I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.