I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.