I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities.

To find eternal peace, love everyone as if they are your beloved children.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

Nothing keeps me awake at night. I keep other people awake at night.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Obviously, you have to be lucky enough for people to want you to be in films, but that is the plan, definitely.

It's fun to get the script every Monday morning and go, "Cool!" I'm a professional actor, but I'm also a professional story lover. I get off on that thrill.

My father would say, 'Ronnie, you're going to be someone special. Whatever it is that you want to do, you're going to be the best in the world at it.'

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.