"We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel."

-- Mavis Staples

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“The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.”
“You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?”
“Man must go back to nature for information.”
“I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.”
“You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.”
“I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: 'Who are You?' He said: 'You.'”
“ItÂ is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.”
“I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.”

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