You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.