I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, Im in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them. – Bonnie Raitt
Ive watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. – Bonnie Raitt
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool. – Bonnie Raitt
It is still a surprise when people tell me that Ive had an influence on them, particularly when its someone I really respect. – Bonnie Raitt
The African Americans relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allens African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates