Eunice Kathleen Waymon Quotes
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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 would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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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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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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.
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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.