You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
It's a good time for black people to be alive.
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.