We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.
My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.
I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.
It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose. . . and I choose to win.
No one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get.
In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.
I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.
Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.