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Mahalia Jackson

Read through the most famous quotes from Mahalia Jackson




You're blessed if you have the strength to work.


— Mahalia Jackson


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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.


— Mahalia Jackson


#got #haven #independent #lord #money

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.


— Mahalia Jackson


#blues #deep #help #pit #singing

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.


— Mahalia Jackson


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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.


— Mahalia Jackson


#feeling #gospel #sing #wrong #you

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.


— Mahalia Jackson


#despair #gospel #gospel songs #hope #songs

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


— Mahalia Jackson


#jewish #know #most #sadness #same

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


— Mahalia Jackson


#gospel #mind #put #remember #your

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


— Mahalia Jackson


#before #black #ever #got #hold

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.


— Mahalia Jackson


#cannot #health #live #man #prayer






About Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson Quotes




Did you know about Mahalia Jackson?

By this time Mahalia Jackson had also become a familiar face to British television viewers as a result of short films of her performing that were occasionally shown. Jackson said Mahalia Jackson hoped her music could “break down some of the hate and fear that divide the white and black people in this country”. Several aunts and cousins lived in the house as well.

"I sing God's music because it makes me feel free" Jackson once said about her choice of gospel adding "It gives me hope. She was described by entertainer Harry Belafonte as "the single most powerful black woman in the United States". Mahalia Jackson (pron.

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