"I did it to myself. It wasn’t society… it wasn’t a pusher, it wasn’t being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing."
― Ray Charles
Topic(s):
Society
More From Ray Charles
- "Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap."
- "My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."
- "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."
More In Society
- "Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society."― Edward Sapir
- "I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest."― A. Whitney Brown
- "Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, ‘You do realise this is a gay club, don’t you lads?’ you get all excited because you think, ‘Wow, he thought I was straight!’"― Graham Norton