Fantasia Barrino

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.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

I wanted people to know that I've been through the rain. I've been broken into pieces; I had a daughter at such a young age. There were times people would say, 'That's it for her.' But that didn't happen.

A lot of times, we get into relationships, and we go in, and we take our old ways. If we take that old baggage into something new, it will never work.

I work out every day, sometimes twice a day.