“Hate knows that love is the cure.”

I’ve had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer.

Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE.

First of all, I’m no better than the next person.

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

Law and order comes from having respect for one another.

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

I think honestly, some people who think they’re gay, they’re confused.

I’m believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

Every day I searched for the star That never was in the sky Now I see that star is on the earth.

It’s up to to you to perfect that gift that you’ve been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.

My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.

Time is long but life is short.

There’s a Place in the Sun, where there’s hope for everyone.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

You are both my illness and my remedy.

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.

But try if you can to support, whether it’s AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.