I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it.

Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.

I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.

First you harmonize, then you customize.

Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.

I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.

The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).

We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.

I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

Health is more important than anything.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

Every time I watch you open those beautiful eyes, I gaze with awe just thinking of how blessed I am to spend the rest of my life with you.

A rebel without a clue.