We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all..

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience..

Perhaps... you love too fiercely..

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'.

But no one can ever say I didn’t sing..

I only invoked what you already knew..

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up..

L.A.'s always been good to me..

I perceived that I wouldn't have to go out and search for what I was supposed to do- it would unfold before me..

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious..

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control..

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself..

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!.

He is coming, and I am here..

I love. I have loved. I will love..

I like that you let yourself be surprised.

Friendship is something that is cultivated..

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply ….

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..

Oh my God I am so cool..

You can only work on yourself. Start there..