You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it you go home and share it with your family.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

Hope is the anchor of life.

FRIENDSHIP - A Journey of different souls through the path of LOVE

I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.

When I was younger, things got to me more, but not now.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief.

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.