The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Don't face the day until you've faced God.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Yet it is only love which sets us free.