I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson’s graduation from a school that has my name on it.
When I first became famous, I didn’t know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn’t know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn’t know what to do with that.
People is, I think, it’s their nature – some people’s nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else’s blessings.
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level – and that’s never going to get lost.
I’m going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I’m going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.
I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It’s difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.
Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It’s such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it ‘lava in my spine.’
Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.
There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.
I’ve learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.
I’ve been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do – you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That’s the point of poetry. You’re supposed to go, ‘Hmmmm,’ and ‘Woooh!’
I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, ‘You’re really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.’ And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.