A biography for Stevie Wonderhasn’t been written yet.
“Let us come together before we're annihilated.”
“Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!”
“You can't base your life on other people's expectations.”
“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”
“I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.”
“I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.”
“Of course I read Braille, yes.”
“No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.”
“You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.”
“I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.”
“Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.”
“Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.”
“I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.”
“I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.”
“Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.”
“Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall”
“When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.”
“I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.”
“I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.”
“I am all for stem cell research.”