My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive
Don't let the man bring you down.
Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.
When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'