“That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this E...” — Cab Calloway Quote

“That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.”

“We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.”

“You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.”

“I had a lot of friends for a long time who were gay, and I didn't even realize it for awhile. Even in my mid- to late 20s, I was still pretty naive about it.”

“I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.”

“You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.”