"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right."
"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about."
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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?"