Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.

Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.

I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.