I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

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.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money...

My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.