I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.

I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that.

I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

I’ve always been a woman of faith.

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

Time is eternity begun.

If you do not sow into God, you cannot expect a financial harvest.

You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.

Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.