I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the foo….

If you got the truth, you put it out there, and everybody says, "Oh, my God. That's me." And then they improvise also. They take off, as well..

There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph is as it was or as ….

I need to be in touch with the people. You've got to look in their eyes, and you've got to feel what they feel. You've got to engage people. All that….

I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly fr….

I am noticing that we're getting more and more people - and I don't know how to handle this - who come to me saying, "Would you pray for my son? Woul….

Any racism or barriers that may be put up, you get a tremendous sense of resistance. The more you push me, the greater I am. You can't hold me down. ….

I have excessive energy, tremendous energy. I have a sense of people. I can feel them, pretty much so, in a short time. I'm not afraid of death. I'm ….

Death is a reality, but life is a reality also. You got to live at this time in your life like you've never lived before. And therefore you've got to….

When the musician starts improvising, he never can go back to what he did last Sunday. That's what's frightening to a lot of people who can't let the….

When people get up on the stage and say, "I've got AIDS," or "I'm in recovery," gosh, it's hard for them. It's like that story touches every person's….

I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church I grew up in. And some of the things they did I….

The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace each other, to engage each othe….

Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and….

I'm not interested in being an intellectual or in being traditional, conventional. I'm not interested in having great wisdom. I'm not interested in t….

That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a long time. I felt rejection from the wh….