Eunice Kathleen Waymon Quotes
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
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I'm just human, I have faults like anyone.
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.
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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 phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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Music is the center of my life.
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.