Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a snack bar . . . and expect you to b….

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only..

I am not an African. I am an American..

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm gr….

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

I am extremely grateful for my 'American Idol' experience, and I enjoyed every bit of it..

I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want to listen to. I have a lot of jazz. ….

No one had ever made it big from my town until I was able to make it to the NFL and now the big screen. The journey from my town to where I am now ha….

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?.

Strength is for service, not status.

I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had concei….

I don't pull, I just receive..

You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….