Anita Baker

When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

I don't think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.