You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.