M.L. Wonder Quotes

Contrary to what people are saying, you can't go by what people say, but by their spirit.

I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.

It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.

Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.

I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

I know there are thousands of images of me.

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from A Time To Love are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make.

My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.

Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

Shoob-be-doo-be-doo-da-day.

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl.

I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.

Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.

Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday.

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams

I wonder if you know how special you are

You say you are a poet of law

....Charles laughingly observed, 'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.

They were a couple in a way that didn't exclude anyone but seemed superior to every other relationship in the room.

There are things that two people say in the middle of the night That don't make sense to a third at breakfast.

We can't help the way we're born. We can't help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.

We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves

Religion enjoys astonishing privileges in our societies, privileges denied to almost any other special interest group one can think of-and certainly denied to individuals

Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.

And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?

I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature

I’ve married a man who is so afraid of living, he’d rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.

This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.

The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.

Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings

Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.