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Stevie Wonder
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“Shame on me, shame on you, Shame on them, shame on us, Shame on me, shame on you, Shame on them, shame on us, So what the fuss.”
Stevie Wonder (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't know what life would be like without music. In my lonely times, music has been my closest friend. It has also been my doctor-and my lover, in the sense that I sometimes listen to music and dream of a lover that doesn't exist. Late at night, when I don't feel sleepy, I'll play music-all types of music and lose myself in its mystery. I might decide to play Stevie Wonder, or Debussy, or Tchaikovsky. It depends on my mood.”
Stevie Wonder (born 1950) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1977 interview in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)
“As Stevie Wonder says in his song (It will take a long time before white America can understand what his music is about at all; it's almost like a code. They don't really know what Stevie is singing about or what Stevie is saying. They can't afford to know.) Stevie says, "I ain't gotta do nothing to you; I ain't even gotta do nothing to you; you cause your own country to fall." And that's what's happening.”
Stevie Wonder (born 1950) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1973 interview in Conversations with James Baldwin edited by Louis H. Pratt and Fred L. Standley (1989)
“And most of all, I'd like to thank Stevie Wonder, who didn't make an album this year.”
Stevie Wonder (born 1950) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paul Simon, speaking on February 28, 1976, accepting the award given as Album of the Year at the 18th Annual Grammy Awards
“What I’ve not heard is a unanimous commitment to atone for the sins of this country... I know that dance. I've heard those songs. It was an 18-year fight to (make) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday... Yet it was a fight I was not willing to lose... Systemic racism can have an ending. Police brutality can have an ending. Economic repression of Black and brown people can have an ending... A movement without action is a movement standing still. To those who say they care: Move more than your mouth. Move your feet to the polls, and use your hands to vote... Black lives do matter. And this is not another digital, viral trend, moment or hashtag, Yes, all lives do matter, but they only matter when black lives matter too.”
Stevie Wonder (born 1950) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Stevie Wonder calls for action on Black Lives Matter efforts: 'Move more than your mouth', Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, source: USA Today, (24 June 2020)
“Stevie Wonder delivered an emphatic, at times impatient video message Tuesday urging on the Black Lives Matter movement. Saying he has listened to "voices on the left, voices on the right," Wonder added, "What I’ve not heard is a unanimous commitment to atone for the sins of this country."... Wonder lamented that three states — North Dakota, South Dakota and Hawaii — have failed to formally recognize Juneteenth as a holiday. "... It was an 18-year fight to (make) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday," said Wonder, who teamed with late U.S. Rep. John Conyers in that ultimately successful campaign... The short video, titled "The Universe is Watching Us," was posted to Wonder's social media channels Tuesday afternoon.”
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