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" Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things. "

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" You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life. "

" I do believe in women. I really do. "

" Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage. "

" Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that. "

" No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music. "

" Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. "

" I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine. "

" I'm concerned about how accessible guns are. "

" Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! "

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" When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me. "

" Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen. "

" Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. "

" The right to bear arms? What about the right to live? "

" I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens. "

" I know there are thousands of images of me. "

" I am not a normal man. "

" God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done. "

" Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with. "

" I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness. "