Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night.
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.
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.
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.
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.
I was too young to know how to love her.
Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.
The only good Jap is one that's been dead six months.