There weren't any white people in this country who didn't…

Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating…

— Alison Moyet

I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we…

— Monica

I like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle. I would love to do songs with them.

— Ghostface Killah

It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, this is good!' You'd always…

— Rebecca Ferguson

Singers like Gladys Knight are mostly responsible for how I learned to sing.

— Lisa Stansfield

“I was having a cup of tea with Mohammed and saying that there are as many belief systems as there are people; to not…

— Tori Amos

As a kid, I was big into Al Green, Gladys Knight and the Pips, but as I got older, I started listening to all…

— Darius Rucker

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

— Brenda Holloway

My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular…

— R. Kelly

It's really fascinating. I've never spent time in a place where they lost the wars, so it was interesting and I didn't know much…

— Evan Jones

I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house…

— Joss Whedon

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in…

— Rodney King

“No, I’d never been to this country before. No, I didn’t know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn’t intend to turn…

— Mary Oliver

Most people in the country didn't - and might still not - know about how powerful the United States is. They think North Korean…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister…

— Banana Yoshimoto