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."

I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.

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 don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.

I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?