Jazz is America's classical music.

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

Education is the seed of thought. If the mind is fertile, it will grow better crops.

Didn’t you read the invitation? There’s going to be a game in a little while--the big Twister game in an hour. Make sure you eat plenty of bread.

Fish to taste right must swim three times - in water in butter and in wine.

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

I know that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have paved the way and they have been a source of inspiration.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.