Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

Stevie Wonder

• God
• Mother
• Sad
• Blindness
• Hopelessness

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  • Mother
  • Sad