My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious

The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

Put out great music, and that's that

My purpose is far greater than my pain

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

I'm not at every party; I'm not seen everywhere. That's why people still care about my brand.

Twist my Body like the Exorcist.

I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.

It feels so good to tell the truth.

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

I've been married nearly 34 years, I'm not perfect, I've made mistakes.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.