Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
When I’m on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It’s a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.
Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I’ll be waiting...
I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
Some people want it all But I don’t want nothing at all If it ain’t you baby If I ain’t got you baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain’t got you, Yeah.
And Im happy that Im not super skinny.
To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she’s not forgotten in this crazy world – that’s why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up.
My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that’s how I regard myself.
My parents weren’t married. It wasn’t like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad’s mother is my nana, and I’m closer to her than almost anybody in this world.
When I was first learning songs, I’d have a favorite song, and I’d take the chords and twist them around. I’d learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.
He broke my heart, and now it’s raining, just to rub it in...
Sometimes I feel good, at times I feel used. Loving you darling, makes me so confused.
Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.
I’ve found that the best life has to offer is right in front of me, with my husband and child.
The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that’s unstoppable. You can’t get through it, you know.
My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
You’ve got to love what’s yours.