I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.
It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
music became my refuge and then my salvation.
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
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.