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February 2013

/ Icons & Legends

Week of Wisdom:
The 70somethings

The elder icons and legends of Black America have lived long and prospered. Their words to the wise should suffice

Week of Wisdom:<br />
The 70somethings

Herbie Hancock (72): “I try to practice with my life.”

Diahann Carroll (78): “You have to know how to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reigns tightly.”

Amiri Baraka (78): “A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.”

Quincy Jones (79): “Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing.”

Sonia Sanchez (78): “In order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice and death.”

Cicely Tyson (79): “I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there’s nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.”

Bill Cosby (75): “Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”

Aretha Franklin (71): “My faith has been and always will be important to me.”

Herbie Hancock (72): “I try to practice with my life.”

Diahann Carroll (78): “You have to know how to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reigns tightly.”

Amiri Baraka (78): “A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.”

Quincy Jones (79): “Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing.”

Sonia Sanchez (78): “In order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice and death.”

Cicely Tyson (79): “I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there’s nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.”

Bill Cosby (75): “Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”

Aretha Franklin (71): “My faith has been and always will be important to me.”

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