Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

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.

Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.

You never cared enough to be Black

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

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.