You have to learn and keep learning.

If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.