Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.

I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that.

I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

I’ve always been a woman of faith.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

We'll fight, ' I interrupt. 'And if we die, that's how it ends. Fighting. With purpose.

When you close to me, my heart has created a vibration of the precise "Carrier frequency" to send all deep information about me to you

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

The more laws, the less justice.