The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.

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.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.