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Johnny Cash
Country Music Legend
Johnny Cash: I think the first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song. The song was called, "Hobo Bill's Last Ride." And I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing that I'd ever seen. That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio. That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
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Dale Chihuly
Master Glass Artist
I always liked stained glass. But I always say, take a little kid down to the beach, you're walking along the beach, you're picking up shells, rocks, beautiful things, and then there's a little bit of stained glass, a little bit of broken bottle -- blue, cobalt blue, green, some colors sitting there. The little kid is going to go for the glass every time, over the shells, over anything. It's the same thing as a diamond down there, almost. I mean, if you look at the fascination we have for gems, that every culture has had. And glass is almost the same thing, I mean, it almost looks in some cases it looks better. It's just the light going through this colored material. There are very few transparent materials. Plastic is one of the only other ones, and people don't like plastic very much, unfortunately. I like plastic, and I'd like to work with it more, but people really don't like it. There's no history.
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Dale Chihuly
Master Glass Artist
Walk into any cathedral, walk into one of the great cathedrals of Europe, it's got a stained glass window up there. There isn't anybody going to walk in there that doesn't think about that window, comment about the color. Probably remember the window more than anything in the church. And that's the same idea, light through glass. Doesn't take very much, either. You can see a square inch of red 300 feet away. That's all it would take to see this beautiful color. So I guess it's color and form. If you add glassblowing to it, now you can make things very quickly with almost no materials at all. I mean, no tools. The way I work is very fast, and with a lot of natural elements like centrifugal force and gravity and fire, and you're forming this thing, and it's moving, it's alive. And if you're watching it, you're completely mesmerized as well. Not only the person making it, but the person watching it, they can stand there for hours and watch you. And there's something sort of magical about it: the way it's done, what it looks like when it's finished, the way it goes from liquid to solid. Glass is described scientifically as a super-cooled liquid when it's hard. Even that is sort of screwed up. There's just something totally unique about the material and the way it's worked.
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Johnnetta Cole
Past President of Spelman College
Johnnetta Cole: I loved school. I thought school was just great stuff. And somehow, I don't remember being teased because I liked school, being isolated, being called a nerd. And I remember now, and remember with a kind of mixed emotion, that I was growing up in the segregated South, going to segregated schools. There was a point when we went to school only half of the day, because the school board in Jacksonville, Florida said that was enough for colored kids. They'd learn all they needed to learn in half a day. I loved school and I think surely a great deal of the explanation must be in the Mrs. Vances of the world. That these were women, rarely men in my early years, who honest to goodness had a revolutionary idea. That every child is educable. That there's no such thing as a child who cannot learn. And so, learning was an activity that one wanted to engage in. Going to school was fun. And I guess, in a sense, I've never given up that passion.
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Johnnetta Cole
Past President of Spelman College
My grandfather wanted me to be an insurance executive, to carry on the family business. Lots of folk would say to my early declaration of being a doctor, "Oh, that's good. That's a good thing to do." But what I wanted to do, what I had discovered, the real passion, was for this thing called anthropology. And how fortunate I am that my mother affirmed it. That she said, "You must do what you feel passionately about." And I really think that all folk need to do that. The idea of getting up in the morning to do what you think others want you to do is not a very interesting way for me to imagine living a life.
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