When you have to work, work with a smile..

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned..

I do what I do because I love it..

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husba….

I could have coached better..

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone..

We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the tw….

Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and paid a professio….

I like to make my husband like me more, and he likes it when I’m wearing makeup..

You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accep….

You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong..

It's not personal, it's strictly business.

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t….

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option..

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near..

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular..

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger..

I imitate everyone except myself..

I would like to get jobs doing other things that aren't necessarily always with my husband. I'd like to show range - and kiss another guy..

I do want to get married. It's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos--you should wait until you come across something you want on you….

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..