Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia JacksonTime 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 JacksonGospel 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.
Mahalia Jackson