Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.
I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.
Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.
There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. We can either be ugly and contemptuous in our behavior, which will turn people off, or else we can carry ourselves with dignity and pride.
If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.
Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.