I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

No one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.