Ethel Waters

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

I am an isolationist.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.