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

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

This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.