Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.