When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.

I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.

I think that people think when you have money that your problems go away and everything's solved, and it's great and wonderful. You're a perfect human being.

Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.