So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.

I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.