I was born black and female.

Big Walter used to say, he'd get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, 'Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.'

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

Mama - Mama - I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.