For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

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

I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.

What I've never wanted to do was allow myself to be put in a box, so I've tried to do a lot of different things so this is a step in trying to do something different so we'll see how it goes. I'm under no illusions that this is slam-dunk. I did the best I could and that's all I can rely on.