You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know!

Our way is not soft grass it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards forward toward the sun.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

Playing Juliet in Heavenly Creatures changed my life, and the role of Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opened many new doors creatively.

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

Sing songs that none have sung

Never leave an enemy behind, or it will rise again to fly at your throat !