Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

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.

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

Dwelling on thoughts gives birth to feelings.

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.