It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.

I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.

What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.