Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.

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

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

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

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.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

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

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

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

ITS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE, WHEN U ARE IN GRIEVE, WHEN U THINK TO LEAVE, IN FUTURE U WILL ACHIEVE, TOMORROW WILL BE AN EVE.

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity.

God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.

In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline.