“If you’re sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I’m going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you’ve got a heart at all, I’m going to get it.”

If it wasn’t for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there’d be no Jazz. Wasn’t middle~class who said Let’s go hear Bird tonight.

This is our culture, and I don’t care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn’t have confidence in himself or else he doesn’t believe in what he’s doing.

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It’s a crime that no little singer is back there sockin’ it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I’m not going to live forever.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly

I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being’s fibers need to hit the gym.

They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos.

If you don’t fight for him, you lose! Fight for him! ~Nana Osaki

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

However, the resources at our people’s disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.

With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom.