"I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids."

“Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.”

“The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims”

“I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.”

“Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul,”

Source : "Teena Marie, Known as 'Ivory Queen of Soul,' Dies", www.foxnews.com. December 27, 2010.

“Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.”

“I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.”

Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.10, Macmillan

“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.”

“Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.”