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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

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Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

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I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn't stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I'm done. I called next door, and the kid picked up the phone, and I was so wild, he dropped it.

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You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

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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.

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Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.

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Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

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I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job.

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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.

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I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.

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I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, like 'Winter in America' and 'Secrets' and when there weren't a whole lot of people in the studios.

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The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

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I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

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I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

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You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

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Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

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As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

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

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You have to learn and keep learning.

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