I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

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

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

I'm just human, I have faults like anyone

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.