One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE.

Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.