Quotes
After starting her career as a beauty queen on the fleshy fringes of show business, Imelda grew into bigger roles, playing Jackie to her husband's Jack, Bonnie to his Clyde, Evita to his strongman.
Susan M. Watkins
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.
James D. Watkins
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
James D. Watkins
This is an era of violent peace.
To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.
To me, "Gypsy Woman" was about creating a positive way to see a homeless person.
Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.
I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.
I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.
Being a star means nothing if you don't have someone to share it with, someone who's going to be excited with you. I met my partner, Lamont Reese, six months before "Gypsy Woman" became a hit. This is a person I trust. He loved me before all this happened.
You try to manipulate the process. In Sacramento, I was very good at it, at getting legislation passed. And when I came to Washington I thought that I was going to approach it differently. That the conventional wisdom was such that you had to not be confrontational, not challenge too much, but understand that there was great tradition.
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
The urban agenda, from my point of view, is what we are going to all help make it. I see myself as helping the White House forge an urban agenda.
The mayor's race is a very sad event for me. I feel no connection. I have no passion. And I don't feel compelled to do anything.
That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.
Many of us are guilty of having allowed Tom Bradley to do whatever he has done without really challenging him, without making sense out of what was going on in City Hall. And so now we are confronted with a situation where we have two candidates and we don't know who they are really and what they care about.
It's all designed to keep people very much intimidated and not challenging the power. And I found the same old tactics worked in Congress too.