"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right."
"Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well."
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"Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it."
"Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening."
"Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees."
"I'm a big woman. I need big hair."
"If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?"