Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
Black women. . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.
Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.
I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist. ' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer. '
Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.