I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.
The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.
I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.
If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life.
To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just sink in with me. But it proves to me that music is powerful.
There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.
When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.
People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.
I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.
The bat is not a toy, it's a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing.
I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
I started modeling and after a while the photographer Bruce Weber introduced me to Joel Schumacher, who cast me in my first film, and I just fell in love.
I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.
