Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

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.

In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.

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

50 years old is like springtime to me.

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.

Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.