“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

The true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things.

I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

I defy gravity.

They will only care when you’re gone.

Everyone has violence in themselves. I’m violent.

That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Whatever you’re going through in your life, don’t ever give up.

When we open to love, we become love.

Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.

Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime.

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Sometimes getting lost is just the right direction.

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.