I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
TONI BRAXTON ..And i can't get you out of my mind,
God knows how hard I've tried
TONI BRAXTON Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
TONI BRAXTON I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON Over the last three years I've been broke, dumped, and pimped.
TONI BRAXTON I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.
TONI BRAXTON I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.
TONI BRAXTON I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,
TONI BRAXTON Beauty and the Beast
TONI BRAXTON The first two albums, I think I was a young adult, ... Now I definitely feel like an adult. I feel l...
TONI BRAXTON There's a little shoulder, a little bit of my back out, ... They've really gone out of their way to ...
TONI BRAXTON He Wasn't Man Enough,
TONI BRAXTON How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard...
TONI BRAXTON I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
TONI BRAXTON To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.
TONI BRAXTON Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.
TONI BRAXTON And i can't get you out of my head,
how in the world will i begin
to let you walk right ou...
TONI BRAXTON I'm thrilled to be going out on the road again. I can't wait to bring not only the hits that people ...
TONI BRAXTON I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husban...
TAMAR BRAXTON I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.
TAMAR BRAXTON It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the...
TAMAR BRAXTON I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.
TAMAR BRAXTON I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, bu...
TAMAR BRAXTON Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've...
TAMAR BRAXTON Everything is real on me.
TAMAR BRAXTON I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be h...
TAMAR BRAXTON You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous.
TAMAR BRAXTON I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever ...
TAMAR BRAXTON I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.
TAMAR BRAXTON A lot of people don't get second chances.
TAMAR BRAXTON Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that on...
TAMAR BRAXTON I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my ...
TAMAR BRAXTON I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afra...
TAMAR BRAXTON I couldn't get one off in the first quarter. They were right on me. But I was eventually able to get...
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON They're a good team. They're young but the growth they've made from last year is tremendous. Their c...
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON We're not a trash-talking team. We just go out and play our game.
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON The national thing is over. Now we're going back to our goal of winning a state championship.
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON It's just frustrating. We're not showing our potential at all, not even the tiniest bit. In my mind ...
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON It's great to play tough teams. But it would definitely be nice to have a win.
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON Candice gave us an amazing spark.
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON If we were settling, you wouldn't see people coming out of the locker room crying.
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON I think the main thing is, in our hearts, we know we can hang with people. No one's satisfied. We ha...
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON We're trying to reach our full potential.
ASHLEIGH BRAXTON The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways,...
ANTHONY BRAXTON So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.
ANTHONY BRAXTON Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalis...
ANTHONY BRAXTON I would find myself backing away from all of the "isms," all of the communities. I have always been ...
ANTHONY BRAXTON I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift...
ANTHONY BRAXTON I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
ANTHONY BRAXTON I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and mu...
ANTHONY BRAXTON Everybody in America is angry about something.
ANTHONY BRAXTON There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second s...
TAMAR BRAXTON I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me...
ANTHONY BRAXTON The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some w...
ANTHONY BRAXTON It's a new year, a new season for us. We chopped the season in half, that was old, this is new. We'r...
BRAXTON ROBINS We haven't had a lot of home games and we've been traveling on the road a lot. It's was good in fron...
BRAXTON ROBINS It's 2006, a new year, man, it feels good.
BRAXTON ROBINS I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more int...
ANTHONY BRAXTON Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
TONI MORRISON How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became tr...
TONI MORRISON Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
TONI COLLETTE When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
TONI MORRISON If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it
TONI MORRISON How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. I...
TONI SORENSON Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.
TONI SORENSON Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one el...
TONI SORENSON All paths eventually lead home.
TONI SORENSON It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. ...
TONI SORENSON How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.
TONI SORENSON Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places.
TONI SORENSON She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Lov...
TONI MORRISON Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman w...
TONI MORRISON We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISON Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling th...
TONI MORRISON If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISON Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an in...
TONI MORRISON You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISON When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like for...
TONI MORRISON There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take ...
TONI MORRISON The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the f...
TONI MORRISON You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want...
TONI MORRISON I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&...
TONI COLLETTE Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
TONI MORRISON The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
TONI COLLETTE Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe...
TONI TENNILLE I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to ...
TONI COLLETTE I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it c...
TONI SERVILLO Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have m...
TONI MORRISON If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the...
TONI MORRISON My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa...
TONI SORENSON Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by...
TONI MORRISON You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you r...
TONI MORRISON Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
TONI MORRISON I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very ...
TONI MORRISON Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to...
TONI MORRISON I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...
TONI MORRISON In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISON All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. TONI MORRISON I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contemp...
TONI MORRISON I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche some...
TONI COLLETTE Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.
TONI SORENSON Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell; it starts in your head with a decision.
TONI SORENSON You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e...
TONI MORRISON I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I ...
TONI MORRISON Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets e...
TONI MORRISON Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destr...
TONI MORRISON I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavou...
TONI COLLETTE Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of tha...
TONI MORRISON Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in...
TONI MORRISON Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
TONI MORRISON Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
TONI MORRISON You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His ...
TONI MORRISON If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'

'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world w...
TONI MORRISON Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
TONI MORRISON She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing some...
TONI MORRISON The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, m...
TONI SORENSON She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; ...
TONI MORRISON Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the r...
TONI MORRISON The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' albu...
TONI TENNILLE Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wa...
TONI MORRISON I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have ...
TONI MORRISON People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with ...
TONI COLLETTE Take a discovery walk today to find what's missing in your life. There's peace in the whisper of the...
TONI SORENSON Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more t...
TONI TENNILLE Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
TONI MORRISON It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to...
TONI JENNINGS I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the mom...
TONI COLLETTE After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts abou...
TONI COLLETTE Cameron and I actually do wear the same size, ... It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.
TONI COLLETTE Hello, sex on legs
TONI ALEO Discussions are ongoing, but we are not in a position to report any new developments.
TONI SIMONETTI I believe in nurturing the inner world.
TONI COLLETTE I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.
TONI COLLETTE Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-comin...
TONI BLAKE It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISON Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
TONI MORRISON He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON You are your best thing
TONI MORRISON Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISON Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISON At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or eve...
TONI MORRISON Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of m...
TONI COLLETTE And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream bo...
TONI MORRISON I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.
TONI COLLETTE And the City, in its own way, gets down for you, cooperates, smoothing its sidewalks, correcting its...
TONI MORRISON Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defens...
TONI MORRISON It's nice when grown people whisper to each other under the covers. Their ecstasy is more a leaf-sig...
TONI MORRISON I’m crazy about this City.

Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half....
TONI MORRISON the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is i...
TONI MORRISON Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets ...
TONI MORRISON A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white pe...
TONI MORRISON For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this cou...
TONI MORRISON I hate sitting around labouring over things. I love just getting into it.
TONI COLLETTE The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, d...
TONI MORRISON As soon as the season starts, I start putting those commitments down on the calendar. Every letter, ...
TONI HARRIS She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON There is documentation that wearing a seat belt reduces injuries from 55 to 65 percent. The one thin...
TONI TIANO We definitely looked rusty and out of sync since we hadn't played for almost two weeks. Our decision...
TONI VARACCHI It was a bright, orange arrow, and at first in looking at it I didn't really know what it was, and a...
TONI HARRIS In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard ...
TONI MORRISON Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the lo...
TONI MORRISON It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about ...
TONI MORRISON Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISON Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal ...
TONI MORRISON Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whethe...
TONI MORRISON Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, an...
TONI COLLETTE Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths.
TONI SORENSON She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was no...
TONI MORRISON The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place...
TONI MORRISON Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't...
TONI MORRISON Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] ...
TONI MORRISON Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil...
TONI MORRISON No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it wa...
TONI MORRISON It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers.
TONI COLLETTE The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and ...
TONI SORENSON Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of ...
TONI MORRISON It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles...
TONI MORRISON I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just rem...
TONI MORRISON The males somehow cue in to the cascade of hormonal changes going on in their pregnant mates.
TONI ZIEGLER It was a close game until that (basket) started looking like a garbage truck and whatever we threw u...
TONI KUKOC nothing more than his personal opinion.
TONI ATKINS We're all somewhat disturbed and quite surprised to see this information, ... I think it means we're...
TONI ATKINS You have to know what you have and how it's categorized to have that discussion, so it's pretty high...
TONI ATKINS I think the City Council authorized the manager to do this and that this is the right way to go, ......
TONI ATKINS I think it's just going to make North Park a cultural hub in the city, ... and people will start com...
TONI ATKINS I think we're on the same page, ... We want to move the city forward.
TONI ATKINS However, his opinion involves a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages from the citizens of ...
TONI ATKINS It is irresponsible for the city attorney, who has been elected to protect the interests of the city...
TONI ATKINS What has caused the damage is Ms. Atkins' misconduct, not the uncovering of Ms. Atkins' misconduct.
TONI ATKINS The citizens of San Diego are opening their hearts, their homes and certainly are opening their arms...
TONI ATKINS