There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

Look up and hook up to a life of significance and don’t look down on yourself.

The grief of widowhood, of losing a husband and only to be harassed by his brothers, remained pressed on her.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

Death is the last limit of all things.

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.