I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

You know, let’s put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn’t be a person left in town.

I remember going swimming as a child and making a wish before I jumped into the pool. […] I’d stretch my arms out, as if I were sending my thoughts right into space. I’d make...

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I’m crazy about her.

Often people just don’t see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can’t do your best when you’re doubting yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will?

I don’t understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

I just wish I could understand my father.

Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the western horizon and disappeared. It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with...

My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we’re a show business family and we all work.

In the field I’m in, there is a lot of that and it gets offered to me all the time. People even go as far as to just stick it in your pocket and walk...

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I – I wanted the public...

Look beyond yourself..

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

I believe we are powerful, but we don’t use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

I’m starting with the man in the mirror,I’m asking him to change his ways;And no message could have been any clearer,If you wanna make the world a better place,Take a look at yourself, and then...

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really...

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it’s something that I cannot help, OK?

I’m really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I’d die for it. That’s how I...

When I see children, I see the face of God. That’s why I love them so much. That’s what I see.

When they say the sky’s the limit to me that’s really true

Why can’t you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It’s very charming. It’s very sweet. It’s what the whole world should do.

How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many struggles must that be? Before we choose to live the profits plan Everybody sing- Every day create your History, Every...

It’s a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It’s not the truth I’m here to say. You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one...

I’ve helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.

And that’s what innocence is. It’s simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity...

When you’re strong and good, then you’re Bad.

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It’s not nice.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I’d see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I...

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to...

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

I’m never pleased with anything, I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of who I am.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There’s a movie theater.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I’m only Human.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

Well Brooke, I’ve always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had...