Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.