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"If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move."
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"When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend's sisters,I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone."

"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."

"We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions."

"We are members of the Church of Christ."

"Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had poured into him the love they couldn't spend on their own absent children and grandchildren."

"I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something."

"Cooperate expression of your church life means a lot."

"In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were."
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"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."


"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."


"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."


"We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing."


"My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation."
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