When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.