Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

I used to go up to her house. She lived upstate [in New York] and I lived in Manhattan; you're living in a lot of noise and my career was being built. For me to spend time with Nina [Simone] is to spend a lot of quiet time.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.