"How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide."

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Kathleen Battle

#Song Quotes #Light Quotes #People Quotes

“In mercy, God has called you and saved, healed, blessed and delivered you.”
“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”

Source : "The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007". Book by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, November 6, 2006.
“Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.”
“I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?”

Source : Song: Primetime, Album: The Electric Lady, 2013
“It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.”
“One thing inspired me the most from the time I spent in Charleston was how much heritage and history are connected to influencing how I cook. Each dish tugged my heart in a different spot that after I finished cooking, I was really emotional and felt fulfilled at the same time.”
“Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.”
“Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.”

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