Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

You cannot fool an audience.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

Where there is money, there is fighting.