If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Black love is black wealth
Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.
I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice.
I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.