Mahalia Jackson

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

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

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

I've done gospel songs on every album.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.