People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

I don't think there's anything I can't do. I have no regrets.

I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real

END is not the END, in fact, E.N.D means Effort Never Dies.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

I do trust women. I have a lot of women in my life. I have a mother. I have a woman. There's a lot of women around me. And I do trust them. And they trust me, as far as I know.

It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.