I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

Experience is the opposite of education.

There is a difference between a church that prays and a praying church. One has prayer programs. The other develops a prayer culture.

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

I do think that the Republican Party is in a crisis right now, a crisis of confidence about who we are.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

My whole career has been an act of revenge.

I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.