You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

I'm just human, I have faults like anyone

Many times I feel different like a different person.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.