I can only live in my truth.

Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.

Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

I do believe that we're all God's children.