Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.

I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...

She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.

Those who spend all they earn always end in penury.

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life and make the most of it.

Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

I'm living the American dream.

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy.