Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.

My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.

I try to be honest and I keep moving.

Poor is the new black.