We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.

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• Solomon Burke:

  If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, w

• Solomon Burke:

  But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right

• Solomon Burke:

  I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that

• Solomon Burke:

  I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

• Solomon Burke:

  My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring

• Solomon Burke:

  Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

• Solomon Burke:

  That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and

• Solomon Burke:

  Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

• Solomon Burke:

  I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

• Solomon Burke:

  You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.