Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

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.

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.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself.

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person nation or creed.

People just get kicks out of making other people sad.

Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.

The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The third eye is the center of wisdom, the Agni chakra.

I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.

And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others.

How do you forget that someone else is another person? No matter who they are. I don't think that's an excuse.

Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.