They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.

I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.

You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.