The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart. Abbey Lincoln
The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart. Abbey Lincoln
Sing a song correctly and you live forever. Abbey Lincoln
I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me. Abbey Lincoln
You can never lose a thing If it belongs to you. Abbey Lincoln
I think that’s what really a substantial work is, it’s forever. It’s the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be … Read More
We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It’s our … Read More
It’s a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a … Read More
I don’t have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes. Abbey Lincoln
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn’t expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I … Read More
There are men and women still on the streets, and that’s all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd … Read More
But I’ve been there and done that. I’m not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can … Read More
I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find … Read More