“If I do an interview, then I take full responsibility. I figure I’m not going to talk to anyone that I think is unethical anyway.”

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it’s show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music.

My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what’s going on in the rest of the world, I think – like in China.

I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.

I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.

I really don’t think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that’s where they hung out with their friends.

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don’t want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I’m not afraid to talk money.

You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that’s left behind!

Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.

I’m a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I’ve really had to decide what’s important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

It’s easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

I think that if my voice for some reason changes – because your voice does change – then it’s time for me not to sing.

I’ve never been damaged or hurt by press. It’s just that I think it’s unfair to use your name in media.

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport.

A tremendous number of people come to the country legally, but overstay their visas.

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.

And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.

If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we’ve chosen to govern ourselves.