Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range. I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.