Who I am is the best I can be.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.

Accomplishments have no color.

I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

Be black, shine, aim high.

If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.

I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Flying high in the dark sky, crazy and free, I was happy visiting the worlds and giving death or madness to the people. Either was liberation.

God can only send the greater light when men's hearts are able to bear it.

You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.

Have they even seen the Winchester boys? Sammy and Dean's existence proves there is a god and she is a woman.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

At the end of day, a player needs the confidence of the manager, the support of the fans and to enjoy the game.