Quotes By Stevie Wonder

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Let us come together before we're annihilated.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

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.

Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.

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.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

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.

For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

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.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

I'm still experimenting.

I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

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.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

People can misconstrue closeness for love.