If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.

I asked them: Does it hurt? And the scar people nodded, yes. But it felt somehow wonderful, they said. For one long second, it felt like the world was holding them close.

Whatever you sow, you shall reap.

It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better than their English is.

Everything changes, even stone.

My true self contains every possibility.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years and it's going to be our capital for eternity

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.