I'm good where I am at this moment.

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.

I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.