I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.
If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can’t get it together and you don’t know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don’t stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there’s one way. You can’t have any fear.
I have this huge, huge fan base of people who’ve never seen a Broadway show, but I think it’s a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you’re getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.
The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.
I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I’ve been looking for it but ain’t seen it since.
I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that...
I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
I know my audience, and they’re not people that the studios know anything about.
I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I’m sorry, I’m still on the last caller.
Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.
Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
All my life I’ve tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.
If you’ve ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you’ll understand that the underlying theme of everything I’ve done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.
Ever since I’ve been blessed with success, I’ve struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I’ve had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, ‘Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?’ Then I feel like I can help.
There’s a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can’t meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.
Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.