“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

I’m the interpreter. I’m the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that’s what I want to do.

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It’s time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It’s time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

If you were black, you experienced (prejudice). It wasn’t a real horrible thing for us; we went through it.