"Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and they liked it because it was just like a letter from home."

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

Mahalia Jackson

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“I wanted to start something in New York that focused on making products locally, and because I'd just had my second child didn't want to be traveling halfway across the world anymore. The idea was to have something wearable that fit with my reality, which was being a mom with two young kids and not always wanting to wear jeans. I still wanted to wear interesting clothes, and the options out there I found were either very expensive or very cheap. There was a big gap in the middle.”
“There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get something out on time can be really good.”
“Never Google yourself. Seriously, don't!”
“When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.”
“Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.”
“One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.”
“The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.”

Source : "A Sermon for the West". Oriana Fallaci's address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.
“The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liberÂties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.”

Source : Diosdado Macapagal (1964). “New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal”

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