Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.
When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that’s when he won’t want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.
Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.
In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.
Anything a person chases in life runs away.
When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.
Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.
Whoever controls the territory possesses it.
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.