The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.