Quotations From MAHALIA JACKSON

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• 1.

  Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), U.S. gospel singer, and Evan Mcloud Wylie. Movin' On Up, ch. 6, written with Evan McLoud Wylie (1966).
  
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• 2.

  It's 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.

  Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), U.S. gospel singer, and Evan Mcloud Wylie, U.S writer. Movin' On Up, ch. 1 (1966) written with Evan McLoud Wylie).
  
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