For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

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.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?