- Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill the thing that made you laugh. - Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1994
- I sing about life. - Marvin Gaye, 1984
- Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soul mate and that takes a lot of looking. - Marvin Gaye, 1983
- I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys. - Marvin Gaye, 1971
- Great artists suffer for the people. - Marvin Gaye
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