I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.

I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.

We'll meet at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat 'til you get there. Once you get there

Compassion is the magic ingredient to an amazing life.

I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.

The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.

You might be a redneck if your daughter's Barbie's Dream House has a clothesline in the front yard.

Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

I'm underrated, don't fit on nobody's playlist / If I ain't in your top 10, then you're a racist.

All design is the process of making experiences.