"Blues are the songs of despair,"

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Source : Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). “Movin' on Up”, New York : Hawthorn Books

Mahalia Jackson

#Song Quotes #Despair Quotes

“All I ever wanted to do was act.”
“If there are not too many value stocks that I can find, the market isn't all that cheap.”
“Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.”
“They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.”
“The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life”
“Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. .. You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.”
“What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?”
“Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.”

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