"Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well."

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Source : "On the Phone With Aretha Franklin". Interview with David Malitz, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

Aretha Franklin

#Queens Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes

“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.”

Source : William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22
“Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.”
“It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.”
“If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.”
“Back-to-School Chats - Advice from Mothers to their Daughters”
“Itâ€™s a revolution. But itâ€™s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better. You might have less money to earn because your food is all around you and you donâ€™t have any energy costs. Giant amounts of money might be freed up in society so that we can provide for ourselves better... So itâ€™s a revolution. But permaculture is anti-political. There is no room for politicians or administrators or priests. And there are no laws either. The only ethics we obey are: care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment in those ends.”
“A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.”
“All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.”

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