When I sing, I always relive a part of my life..

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding..

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth..

Will loved to gallop..

Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it..

Africa is on the rise..

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses..

Start small and with your own money..

They will love me for that which destroys me..

The image is an image..

God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old..

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..

Our culture puts a lot of pressure on the idea that a woman's self-worth is defined by her looks. It's just awful. And they also put a tremendous pre….

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

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