The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

You can have anything you want

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

and while he did all the actual dancing, I remember whirling around and around the porch those hot summer days so long ago and never wanting to stop.

Smile at people, pop your head into your boss’s office regularly and say hello, and come to your first meeting with something really smart to say.

Having appeared at the end of the first creation, man [and women] stand at the beginning of the second, since the world is transfigured through [them].

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

When you can laugh at yourself, you are free.

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.