I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

I can only live in my truth.

To be silent is to be passive.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

Everything happens when it's supposed to.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here.

Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.