To Be Young, Gifted And Black!

I Demand Perfection In What I Do, And I Practice Very Hard Before I Give A Concert-sometimes Three To Six Hours A Day.

Music Is An Art And Art Has Its Own Rules. And One Of Them Is That You Must Pay More Attention To It Than Anything Else In The World, If You Are Going To Be True To Yourself. And If You Don't Do It - And You Are An Artist - It Punishes You.

Desegregation Is A Joke.

Music Is The Center Of My Life.

I Was Always A Politician From The Day The Civil Rights People Chose Me As Their Protest Singer.