The hip hop community is not at fault here - I'm definitely not blaming them. But, that can't be the only view of manhood for our young men.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere

Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey

You can't tell big dreams to small minded people.

If a man loves you . . . he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancée, his wife, his baby's mama, something.

I am sure that music was never meant to sound this harsh, this painful.

I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.

If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.

I described the pyramid we'd found and waited for him to jump on the bandwagon. Unfortunately he's afraid of wagons. And bands.

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.