To Be Young, Gifted And Black!

I Was Reared In The Church From The Age Of Three. I've Played Piano Since I Was Three. I Performed At Revivals And For My People Around North Carolina For Several Years. People Around Town Collected Money To Send Me To School.

I'm A Real Rebel With A Cause.

When I Was Studying... There Weren't Any Black Concert Pianists. My Choices Were Intuitive, And I Had The Technique To Do It. People Have Heard My Music And Heard The Classic In It, So I Have Become Known As A Black Classical Pianist.

Music Is One Of The Ways By Which You Can Know Everything Which Is Going On In The World. You Can Feel... Through Music... Whew... You Can Feel The Vibrations Of Everybody In The World At Any Given Moment.

I Think If I Were Over There In America, Protest Music Would Be More Important. But I'm Not Going.