"The very first principle of life is this: Never let anybody get your goat."

"Dat's what makes a man and a woman. You can't have one without the other."

"No matter what the race of people, they are always a little better than any other race."

"I like myself when I am laughing. And then I think that is the best way to like yourself. To be laughing."

"All my life, I have been a black woman. I have never been anything else."