No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.