“I remember how we used to sing on the stoop, and this person I guess s...” — Leslie Uggams Quote

“I remember how we used to sing on the stoop, and this person I guess she didn't like music would pour cold water on us from the upper floors.”

“I just love 'Happy.' I have a little grand baby who loves that song. We'll play it and dance around. Pharrell's conveyed a feeling that when you sing this song, it's joyful.”

“My Aunt Eloise Uggams was my first inspiration. She performed on Broadway, and when I was 10 years old, I saw her in 'Porgy and Bess,' the first Broadway show I ever attended.”

“The lessons Noam Chomsky sets out to teach us in 'Toward a New Cold War' are invaluable. The United States, like any other nations, can and does err, and often in a big way. But Chomsky cannot support at all his implicit diagnosis that America is 'bad.'”

“I love cold weather.”

“I think it's really important to not be afraid of failure and to push yourself to try things and jump in the cold water.”