I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.