Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.

Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right.

No matter how hard it seems...never give up, always believe.

Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.

Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.

The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

Thunder is noise to a pessimist but music to an optimist.

Each heartbreak is a little death, all the same.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.

I left my Phillie at home, Do you have another? I wanna get blunted, my brother.

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.

I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.

There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.