I think it’s important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don’t see that anymore.
When you haven’t forgiven those who’ve hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.
I live my life outside of the box because when I die they’re going to put me into one!
There were certain areas in the country where I couldn’t go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
It’s so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.
A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
Don’t stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.
The important thing for me is, and what I’d like people to know is that, one particular genre does not make it whole. There are many, many different genres and if you ever gave it an opportunity open mindedly, I think you’d find some pretty interesting things there.
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn’t there during that time, but that’s where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I’m very, very proud of that because it’s given me my history.
If you don’t want my God here, you don’t want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.
There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!
True love can come more than once.
I think we are born into what we’re supposed to learn and find out in this life.
It’s a clear day Sonny, L A N D.
A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.
What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
I tell people, if you’re thinking about suicide, all that stuff I’ve attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.