Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

At the core, we're all spiritual beings.

Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.