You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.

You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.