As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.
I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!
I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.
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.