Vanessa Williams Quotes

• Success is the sweetest revenge.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Revenge
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  The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in People, Fight

• I think there’s a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there’s a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it’s a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let’s start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Time, Need

• I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationships, Personality

• Broadway is really my life.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Life

• Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she’s about 5 feet – and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Public, Public Opinion

• You wondered how you’d make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the very thing you’re looking for, is the one thing you can’t see.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Dreams

• You’re always going to have people that are naysayers, that don’t believe in your talent, that don’t believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Believe

• There are a lot of things that you don’t realize that your parents are going through when you’re a kid.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents

• New York is my home.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New York

• And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Listening

• I love the French horn.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Love

• And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don’t.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Time

• My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parent

• I am not a lesbian and I am not a slut, and somehow I am going to make people believe me.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lesbian, People

• Success is the sweetest revenge.

  Vanessa Williams

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Revenge

Vanessa Williams (16)

Birth:	18th March, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Record Producer, Singer

About

Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American singer, actress and former fashion model. In 1983, she became the first American woman with African American ancestry to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal arose when Penthouse magazine bought and published nude photographs of her. She relinquished her title early and was succeeded by the first runner-up, Suzette Charles of New Jersey.

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