I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

I'm just human, I have faults like anyone

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

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

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

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

I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be