I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Curtis Amy. Career was fine, but I was enthralled with being Curtis' wife. That was very important to me back then, and that's always important to a young lady from New Orleans. That's our upbringing: to be a wonderful wife and mother first.

Carole King is one of my dearest friends. We're like family.

My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

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