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"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me."
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"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."
Fault
"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
Dew
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
Time
"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
Thought
"We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available."
Being
"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."
Feelings
"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
Family
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
People
"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."
Life
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."
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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
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"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."
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"I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive."
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"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."
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"It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all."
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"My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength."
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