"There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Mavis Staples

#Song Quotes #Grateful Quotes #People Quotes

“The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.”
“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”
“Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success”
“So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.”
“O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?”
“Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.”
“Life is but a series of memories you make.”
“An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?”

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