No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.

Love is the human family’s most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

I think secretly and privately there is a destiny for me and just for me to stay on that track and follow it. I really believe and feel I am here for a reason and that's my job, you know, to perform for the people and if they accept it that I am rewarded.

Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them.

I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.

Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.