I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it