There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.

The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.

You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

The ocean has limits, but true love does not.

I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.