50 years old is like springtime to me.

The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!

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

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

I really do hate to sing.

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.