Mahalia Jackson Quotes

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

Mahalia Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 26, 1911 - January 27, 1972

Topics

MeBabyBlackWhiteSkinTalk

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

Jimmy Carl Black

LiveArtCreativeMeCrazyWorld

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Jim Harrison

WishSexWriteOutsideOpenHow

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

Jeremy Jackson

ToughOldRecipesMostThemWere

We wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about a 5 percent reduction of our global staff. But in order not to cut any more jobs, we froze everybody's pay and put a hiring freeze on.

John Mackey

PossibleMoreSalesPayOrderCut

As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves.

John McWhorter

LovePeopleMeBlackLovingWhite

I don't believe in guys waiting for title shots.

Max Holloway

WaitingBelieveShotsTitleGuys

Now, as Global Ambassador for Starlight Children's Foundation, which brightens the lives of poorly children, I visit hospitals and tell stories to the young patients. Sometimes I read. Sometimes I draw.

Tony DiTerlizzi

ChildrenFoundationYoungSometimes

People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.

Joseph Brodsky

PoetryPeopleChoiceSeriousBuy

I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.

Dick Van Dyke

GoodTimeComedyGoldenNeedWell

It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.

Drake

MeCareConfidentKnowImportant

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

Chirlane McCray

LearningConfidenceHomeExperience

My mom's mother was from Virginia, but I don't feel much of a tie. I'm very much anti-South for many, many reasons. Whenever I go down there, people are always looking at me funny, you know.

Colson Whitehead

FunnyMotherPeopleMeMomLooking

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