Della Reese

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.