I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

I'd rather have happiness than money.

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

I'm so good and so loving that men don't believe it.

I am proud to be an African.

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.

I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.

I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.

Silence is a place of great power and healing.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

"Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly"... "And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place."

Yara: Youre a great warrior. I saw the bodies above your gates. Which one gave you the tougher fight, the cripple or the six year old?