Music is really something that makes people whole.

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.