You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single one of them point back up to where I’m standing.

Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals

Politics is an alternative to war and if you're in it, you live it as such. You win some & you lose at times.

She influenced by the positivism of her race, was gazing into the future. While he was content with the present moment, not caring to know what would be the end of their love

Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence.

Standing where God's mercies fall is the guarantee for being blessed.

Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

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