Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

The trouble with records is that they're too short.

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

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

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

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.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.