There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

Welcome to prekindergarten! You will not die if you discover that there are more lines out there than just your own. In fact, you'll discover that you will have an advantage if you know more of them!

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

Coming up in the African-American culture, we were taught that we belonged to the universe and society was wrong in the way it dealt with us. We had to learn to express and affirm values not from the winning position.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.