Go within every day and find the inner strengthso that the world will not blow your candle out.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

A creative person has to #‎ create .

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul.He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon.He is my beloved.

No man runs the race until he sees the dream.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art.

I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.