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To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.

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I'm a real rebel with a cause.

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As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world.

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You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.

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I think that the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier - but you see, I have to live with Nina, and that is very difficult.

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What I was interested in was conveying an emotional message, which means using everything you've got inside you sometimes to barely make a note, or if you have to strain to sing, you sing.

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I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I've performed, I just want them to be to pieces.

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I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

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All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 21st, 1933

Died: April 21st, 2003

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