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Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
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We have to be respectful to one another.
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We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.
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Gun violence is real. People don't come back.
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Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.
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I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time To Love" are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make...The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do...It is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.
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It could have been worse. I could have been born black.
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Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.
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Hate knows that love is the cure.
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When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.
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Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4.
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The power has to be in your desire to see everyone thrive.
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I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
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Disrespect is real stuff.
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Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?
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We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
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Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.
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Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.
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Isn't she lovely made from love?
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Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.
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Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.
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My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
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There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll. His name is Chuck Berry.
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Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.