Quotes About Equality

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

My music was made with everyone in mind with no prejudice towards anyone.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.