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Mahalia Jackson

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

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Donna Grant

"We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby."

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Donna Grant

"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."

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Donna Grant

"If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless."

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Donna Grant

"Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives."

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Donna Grant

"Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites."

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Donna Grant

"I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural."

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Donna Grant

"I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant."

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Donna Grant

"It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race."

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Donna Grant

"I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby."

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Donna Grant

"I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower."

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

God

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Mahalia Jackson
"I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better."

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Mahalia Jackson
"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."

Money

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

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Mahalia Jackson
"If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check."

Christmas

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Mahalia Jackson
"When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on."

Nothing

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Mahalia Jackson
"I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey."

Worry

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

Sadness

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Mahalia Jackson
"Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!"

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

Cure

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