"We stay strong. We stay positive, keep our heads up, love one another, spread love. The Devil can't win when you have God on your side."

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Source : "Mavis Staples Interview: Staple Singers, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, Jr., and that one time in Memphis". Interview with Ed Masley, www.azcentral.com. March 1, 2017.

Mavis Staples

#Stay Strong Quotes #Winning Quotes #Your Side Quotes

“I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“What I tend to tell my students is, â€œWhen you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.â€”
“I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.”
“The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.”

Source : Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”
“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary-it's always imaginary-world in which I would like to live.”
“This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force.”
“Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”
“Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.”

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