If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.

Who I really am keeps surprising me.

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.