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'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.

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.

Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.

A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

When everything is said and done there is nothing left to do or say.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.

Night was running ahead of itself.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.