The revolution will not be televised.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

The revolution will not be televised.

I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.