I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?