“If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel...” — Sam Phillips Quote

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years.

At Unilever, we operate in 190 countries with two billion people using our products daily. We take climate seriously because we know that it impacts those two billion people - and that means it impacts us, too.

The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.