To be young, gifted and black!

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.

Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.

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

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?

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.