The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

Peace and trust take years to build and seconds to shatter.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The legends say, that Ares takes the form of his warriors and he visits their wives while they're away at battle.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.

You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.

Problems are here in this world so that we can realize our purpose in this world.