To be young, gifted and black!.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thin….

There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, ….

It's a good time for black people to be alive..

I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa..

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed..

I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolin….

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out..

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my mu….

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I fee….

My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is ….

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times..

Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phras….

Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new wor….

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served..

I'm a nut for Bach as a composer..

As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even thou….

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served"..

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear..

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream..

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music..