Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'