When A Child Is Gifted, People Try

It's A Good Time For Black People To Be Alive.

The Worst Thing About That Kind Of Prejudice... Is That While You Feel Hurt And Angry And All The Rest Of It, It Feeds You Self-doubt. You Start Thinking, Perhaps I Am Not Good Enough.

I Applied For A Scholarship To Curtis Institute Of Music In Philadelphia. I Knew I Was Good Enough, But They Turned Me Down. And It Took Me About Six Months To Realize It Was Because I Was Black. I Never Really Got Over That Jolt Of Racism At The Time.

Birds Flying High You Know How I Feel Sun In The Sky You Know How I Feel Breeze Driftin' On By You Know How I Feel And This Old World Is A New World And A Bold World For Me And I'm Feeling Good I'm Feeling Good

I Believe The Time Will Come When The Whole Definition Of Pop Music Will Change. It Will Get To The Point Where A Song Will Not Be A Good Song Until It Has A High Level Of Creativity In Writing And Performance. In Other Words, In Order To Be Popular, Songs Will Have To Meet These High Standards.