Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.

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.

Begin your day, upon awakening, with prayers of gratitude, requests and affirmations that they are being answered—always ending with more gratitude.

Grief does not change you. It reveals you.

But when we sit together, close, ’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

If you think that your hardest problem is what color shoes to wear.You should get out more!

The apple is perfect because of the bruise that runs through it.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families