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Mahalia Jackson

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Everybody needs somebody.


— Mahalia Jackson


#everybody #needs #somebody

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.


— Mahalia Jackson


#everything #god #hands #his #make

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?


— Mahalia Jackson


#god #grace #hands #how #sing

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.


— Mahalia Jackson


#god #hope #i #people #songs

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.


— Mahalia Jackson


#benefit #come #get #i #i see

Money just draws flies.


— Mahalia Jackson


#flies #just #money

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.


— Mahalia Jackson


#feet #hands #i #me #say

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.


— Mahalia Jackson


#because #dance #dead #glory #i

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.


— Mahalia Jackson


#blues #deep #help #pit #sings

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.


— Mahalia Jackson


#although #experts #gospel #gospel music #i






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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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