Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

King John was not a good man, He had his little ways.And sometimes no one spoke to him, For days and days and days.

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.

Take my love, take my land. Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me.

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

You are telling me that your lawyer is a bloodsucking vampire?

Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.

One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.