Minds ripen at very different ages.
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
Time is long but life is short.
Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.
If you don't ask, you don't get.
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay.
My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.
Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.