Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Either You see GOD in all or You don't see GOD at all.

I want us to be a connected team-on and off the field.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.

I express myself very strongly it's groveling, I'm trying to show groveling, but all of a sudden I found that I was mocking somebody.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

The more I work the happier I am.

The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'