Tameka Cottle Quotes

#1. Sometimes, all he has to do is sit up, and he will be reminded, as if slapped across the face, that his body owns him, not the other way around.

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)

Donald Rothberg

#3. You get what you get when you get it.

Mark Barnes

#4. The path to mediocrity is wide; the path to greatness is narrow, and the path to genius is hidden; few find it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. I'm always giving out advice. People always come to me for that.

Tameka Cottle

#6. They would send me notes on what's going on, and we would pitch in and talk about what we wanted to talk about on the show. I just really did my homework. It was more like a real job for me. Doing this talk show was like, "Wow, this is what they do?!" I can't even imagine doing it every day.

Tameka Cottle

#7. Some days I'll be like, "You know what? Why don't I go to my daughter's studio and make a song?!" And then I don't! I don't know if I would have all the time it takes to put into a song.

Tameka Cottle

#8. I remember, working on 'Lost,' I learned very quickly the way that I had to approach the material or even ask the director questions. It was always prefaced with, 'Would it be wrong for me to assume?' Because I didn't know where my character on 'Lost' was going.

Nestor Carbonell

#9. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Don't just be in the business and have fun 'cause you're a kid. You've gotta learn; this is your livelihood.

Tameka Cottle

#11. Family's always first. God and family, and I go from there.

Tameka Cottle

#12. Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

Oscar Peterson

#13. Falling in love? First make sure that you passed a hardcore military training of emotions.

Ameya Agrawal

#14. When you get a man, you have to nurture him. Treat him like a king. If you put that little work in in the beginning, it pays off.

Tameka Cottle

#15. Just tell me what to do. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I don't want to be here.

Dan John

#16. We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people
especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

Alice Walker