I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.