Vantage Quotes

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.