Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

You have to be resilient.

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

Good health and happiness are life’s most precious treasures. Those who possess them are blessed.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

My mind is very clear, but my heart is unable to understand.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it.

Without action, you aren't going anywhere.

I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world.

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and hes a good friend.

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.