Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.

The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.

There is nothing more attractive than a nice smile

I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.

Love is very light, very joyful, very simple and innocent.

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Between Newt Gingrich, [Rudi] Giuliani and Chris Christie, they've got like the trifecta of misogyny.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

I watched a lot of comedy growing up.