Fantasia Barrino

You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up. ”

God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over. ”

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up. ”

Everything in life is a fight. Everybody wants this microwavable life, and it doesn't work like that. I'm here to say, 'See what I went through? Look at me now.' ”

True story - I had index cards; I would write things on them and post them on the mirror in the bathroom. And I would speak it. Because you have to speak life. You have to speak what you want. You have to watch what you say because it's power in your tongue. ”

You can't tell me that dreams don't come true. My life is proof that they do. ”

I'm a true country Southern girl that has always been built around family, cookouts and gatherings and being together on the holidays, singing together and laughing together. So whenever God opened doors for me to be able to travel the world and sing and do all the great things that I've done, I didn't want to lose that part so family first for me. ”

I didn't want to be the type of mother where my child came to me, and I can't even help her with her homework. ”

Have a little faith. Don't give up. ”

I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith. ”