JoJo - "We put our dirty clothes
in the front yard. Look but don't judge. Maybe we can stop someone from going through that." (On
his brother K-Ci and himself starring in a TV One reality show to "come clean" of alcoholism.)
Nick Cannon - "Oprah
has her network, why can't I have mine." (Concerning his position as CEO of Nickelodeon's new TeenNick Network)
Shad "Bow Wow" Moss - "What
you see is all Bow Wow." (Concerning his role
in the film The Lottery Ticket)
HLN's anchor Robin Meade - "News isn't always good. We are
the guardians of what you hear."
Morgan Freeman - "When he (Nelson Mandela) said he'd prefer
I be the one to play him...I had to start then (preparing for the role). I contacted him shortly afterwards. I said I have
to have access to you, touch your hand."
Jamie Foxx - "I learned how to sing by teaching people. Music was my passion. I didn't know
I had a voice. I was minister of music (at his grandmother's church) for the choir and I would teach people parts (alto,
tenor, soprano, etc...)."
Canton Jones - "A lot of dudes doing Hip-Hop are my friends. Mainstream...are Christians. Most times
(people) are quick to judge...I'm not a person to judge."
Gamble and Huff - "We started dreaming
together about the business of making music a life long career. The botton line is you got to make a living. We had a band
and was writing songs trying to make a hit." - Gamble
"Gamble started Gamble Records and signed the Intruders." - Huff
"The Intruders were one of my favorite groups at the time...we were doing singles."
- Gamble
Ann and Nancy of Heart
- "We do not have a set formula for songwriting. The song tells
us what it wants to do. It's hard to pin-point. Some times it comes in all different ways. You may dream of a melody that
just flies from the air or you may sit down and try to write a song or you may have a nip of an idea or you may have a little
bit of lyrics that roll into a song."
Jermaine
Dupri - "If I am going to work with you I am going to bring
out what I think you have in you or I am not going to work with you"
Bill
Duke (actor/director) - "It (a project) has to touch me emotionally, if it does, then it
will touch my audience also on an emotional level. I have to feel something and I do everything I can to make the audience
feel it also."
Raven-Symone'
- "My career started
when I was 16 months old, I was modeling and we moved to New York and I was signed to the Ford Agency. At an audition for
"Ghost Dad" (starring Bill Crosby) Sidney Poitier was in the room and told Bill Crosby, ‘you need to see her,'
I was three years old and that's how I got on the Crosby Show."
Will.i.am
(Black Eye Peas) - "At this point of time in American history
the NAACP has to push even harder than it did before. Blacks being able to vote and Obama in the White-House...!! Quincy Jones,
Berry White and Berry Gordy forced America to acknowledge black artists."
Shirley Caesar - "Gospel music is a big business, bigger than classical, blues and country because there are so many facets of
it, from Blue Grass Gospel to Contemporary Gospel."
