Minds ripen at very different ages.
What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.
Your voice dries up if you don't use it.
Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.
Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.
it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.
I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's interesting.
Once more you open the door and you're here in my heart, and my heart will go on and on.
Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.
You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker.
I think that the language that we use is a ritual, that my [maternal] grandmother was called "Big Mama" is a ritual, that my daughter calls my father "Baba" and my mother "Mama" is a ritual. There are common African-American rituals that are a part of my experience. If I ever get married some day I would like to jump the broom.