It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black….

Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him..

There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in society has been very accura….

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color..

I'm trying to educate people about things that I believe are right, and some of the things that I believe are right might not be right, so I live in ….

When you walk the significant land, the land speaks to you - even if it's 150 years later. You walk the earth and good things happen. There's always ….

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you..

I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel..

I'm a better musician now, and I rarely practice because age has taught me the value of economy. And I think I'm a better writer now because I don't ….

You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and you talk to them in really intelligent terms,….

The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I do….

The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into fiction for someone else. In ….

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. ….

...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to rela….

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D ….

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are.".

I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just d….

If you're going to cheat and take people's history and you're not writing the Bible, you ain't really so great. But if you try to do it in a way that….

The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that d….

My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like….

Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong..