Mahalia Jackson Quotes
Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
-
I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
-
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.
-
People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
-
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.
-
I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
-
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.
-
It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
-
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.
-
It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
-
Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
-
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.
-
'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
-
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.
-
By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
-
I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities in different ways but ultimately leaves them undermined and really devalued in our society.
-
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
-
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
-
I think both sides China and United States should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.
-
Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
