The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.
I get up around 7 a. m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.
It's okay for you to have relationships, but it's not okay to talk about them. It's not okay to be out or to be public about it. It's not okay to be photographed with your partner.
I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, “I’m beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. I’m beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I’m beautiful because I say I am. I’ve earned it, and I’m gonna be it.
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.
Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.
I think love keeps on changing every day. It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.