Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.

Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away.

Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a p

It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.

I only form an opinion when I feel that I've done sufficient research and have sufficient access to information.