The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

I take things too seriously..

I've aged, but grown up? No..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be ….

It's never over till it's over with a friend..

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure..

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.