I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say..

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..

That’s what you do for family. Anything..

The old Lena is dead..

What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [….

[Alex Haley] objective was to illustrate that the racial separatism of the N.O.I. was a kind of pathological or a kind of - it was the logical culmin….

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about..

Music gave me something to do in my life..

Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions..

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?.

Eat right and you can’t go wrong..

I don't like overt traditionalism..

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..