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"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."
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"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."
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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
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"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."
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"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive."
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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."
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"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."
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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"I take responsibility for myself and what I do now."
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"I sing the songs that people need to hear."
People
"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
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"And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve."
Woman
"The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage."
Time
"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."
Now
"What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries."
Time
"It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them."
Artist
"When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems."
Time
"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."
Mother
"Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night."
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