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

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.

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

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.

The Soul is attached to the world, and her Love contains the passion, beauty, and awe that make life worth living.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.

If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.