You'll never get to heaven, if you break my heart.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

I don't think there's anything I can't do. I have no regrets.

I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

Nature is unlimited and unconditional source of inspiration...

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.

Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.