You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

The difference between good teachers and great teachers is that great teachers have mastered the art of teaching people things they didn't know they needed to learn.

Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.

Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack. . . had a great impact on me as a singer, as a performer, as a musician.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.