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.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

It's a good time for black people to be alive.

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

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

My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.

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