When I went to Japan I sang in Japanese; when I went to Greece I sang in Greek. When I went to Spain, I sang in Spanish. I couldn't speak it very well, but I sang, I was beautiful in singing it. These things just constantly attracted people to the uniqueness of who I was and the way in which I performed.

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?

I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled here. Although oppression was common to all of us, those styles of oppression gave us the opportunity to see the world in dimensions we didn't quite see growing up in any one place.

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.