Fly Quotes: Thom Bell

“If they gave me ten million dollars, I wouldn’t be working for them. All the money in the world was not going to make me happy. What made me happy was producing records. You canot be in a creative business and be doing what you don’t like to do. That’s the kind of stuff that drives you crazy.”

Fly Quotes: Shirley Chisholm

"Quite a few people think I'm aloof and antisocial. Actually I'm gregarious, but I am selective about whom I want to be with. The cocktail and dinner party circuit is mostly made up of hangers-on, dealers, and self-promoters. The people who really do things are not party people. They have too little free time to spend it at parties listening to people who are glassy eyed with alcohol and making little sense." -Shirley Chisholm

Fly Quotes: DMX

"Pray for me and I'll pray for you."

Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Bruce Lee Edition

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." -Bruce Lee

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." -Bruce Lee

Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Jimi Hendrix Edition

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." -Jimi Hendrix

"I've been imitated so well, I've heard people copy my mistakes." -Jimi Hendrix

Fly Quotes: Nina Simone

"I'm a real rebel with a cause." -Nina Simone

Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Marcus Garvey Edition

"A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman; but a writing man and woman is exact." -Marcus Garvey

Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Alex Haley Edition

"I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less." -Alex Haley

Fly Quotes: Marvin Gaye

"Most fear stems from sin. To limit one's sins assuredly limits one's fears, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit." -Marvin Gaye

Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Arthur Ashe Edition

"A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions." -Arthur Ashe

Fly Quotes: Huey Newton

"The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people." -Huey Newton

Fly Quotes: The Pablo Picasso Edition

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." -Pablo Picasso

Fly Quotes: The Curtis Mayfield Edition

"Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain." -Curtis Mayfield

Fly Quotes: The Lena Horne Edition

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." -Lena Horne

Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Coretta Scott King Edition

“When it's just us, I can be myself and know you'll love and understand me no matter what. You don't want anything from me except my happiness.” -Coretta Scott King

Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Charles Mingus Edition

"You haven't been told before that you're phonies. You're here because jazz has publicity, jazz is popular. You like to associate yourself with this sort of thing. But it doesn't make you a connoisseur of the art because you follow it around. A blind man can go to an exhibiton of Picasso and Kline, and not even see their works, and comment behind dark glasses, 'Wow! They're the swingingest paintings ever, crazy!' Well, so can you. You've got your dark glasses and clogged up ears." -Charles Mingus

[SIDEBAR: I totally relate to the sentiments expressed in this quote.]

Fly Quotes: Mary McLeod Bethune

"Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist." Mary McLeod Bethune

Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Billie Holiday Edition

"The difficult I can do today. The impossible will take a little longer." -Billie Holiday

Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Marvin Gaye Edition

"Most fear stems from sin: to limit one's sins assuredly limits one's fears, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit." - Marvin Gaye

Fly Quotes: The Bruce Lee Edition

"If you put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else: it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus; and you must not stay there. You must go beyond them." -Bruce Lee