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.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

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.

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.