We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

A creative person has to #‎ create .

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

We saw beautiful landscapes on the journey.

Man does not commit sin in unintentional deed, but he might be the only one that could justify it.

GIVE IF YOU CAN. TAKE IF YOU HAVE TO

Do you even know who I am? Seriously, tell me, because I don't.

You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.

She did not use it at all well mostly.

how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

May I meet each moment fully and meet it as a friend.