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Roberta Flack

  • “To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

    • Roberta Flack,
    • in Essence ()

  • “Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime should rank among the fine arts.”

    • Roberta Flack,
    • in Clinton T. Howell, Better Than Gold ()

  • “A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes ...”

    • Roberta Flack,
    • in Newsweek ()

  • “Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.”

    • Roberta Flack,
    • in Terri L. Jewell, ed., The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya ()

Roberta Flack, U.S. pianist, composer, singer

(1937)

Full name: Roberta Cleopatra Flack.