Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
Blues are the songs of despair.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing not to vote spits in the face of our ancestors who fought for our right to vote.
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?
Don't pull your love out on me baby.