Mahalia Jackson Quotes
Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
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With 'City of Black & White,' I wanted a record that would make you feel good, that would sort of take you up in its hand and sweep you along.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.
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When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to hear what we've done.
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Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
