Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails done. Or being pantsed. People assume I'm cool.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.