Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?

I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye.

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.