"Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!"

-- Mahalia Jackson

#Long Quotes #Singing Quotes #Important Quotes

“Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.”
“The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.”
“For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”
“I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.”
“Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.”
“I'm definitely not a model. I just get to, in the course of what I do, especially with acting and dressing up and getting into different characters and doing one-off campaigns with brands I really love, I get to be a model for a day. I walked on one catwalk once, and it was the most frightening thing, because you're just putting one foot in front of the other, but it was pretty mortifying.”
“I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave somebody else, one more person, hope. And after all, that's what this is all about. It's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power â€” it's about giving those young people out there in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias, hope. You gotta give them hope.”

Source : Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (p. 277), 1982.

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