"Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap." ― Ray Charles Topic(s): Love More From Ray Charles "My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil." "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." "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 Love "Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."― Aphra Behn "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."― A. Whitney Brown "Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."― Erich Fromm