Quotes About Leontyne Price

#1. Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.

Leontyne Price

#2. I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.

Leontyne Price

#3. I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

Sonia Sanchez

#4. If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

Leontyne Price

#5. We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.

Leontyne Price

#6. What they discovered was that not only fish, but spiders and many insects can taste their food by the structures that are most likely to first come in contact with the food. And this in many invertebrate species turns out to be the feet.

Karen Shanor

#7. Who I am is the best I can be.

Leontyne Price

#8. Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Leontyne Price

#9. Some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever leaving you in anticipation to read the next page.
Some people are the same way.

Katie Douglas

#10. I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

Leontyne Price

#11. Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.

Leontyne Price

#12. Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Of all America's natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#14. I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

Shirley Maclaine

#15. You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.

Leontyne Price

#16. We performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

Leontyne Price

#17. All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.

Leontyne Price

#18. I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.

Leontyne Price

#19. Accomplishments have no color.

Leontyne Price

#20. A healthy sex life. Best thing in the world for a woman's voice.

Leontyne Price

#21. Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

A.E. Samaan

#22. It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

Mother Teresa

#23. The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.

Leontyne Price

#24. Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

Ivan Bunin

#25. If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.

Leontyne Price

#26. If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.

Leontyne Price

#27. I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials.

Eli Roth

#28. PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

Peter Norvig

#29. For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.

Leontyne Price

#30. The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Leontyne Price