“As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me—Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, and Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.” — Mary J. Blige ~ Enjoy your weekend, wonderful friend
"You can’t fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the end, that’s got nothing to do with it. It’s how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.” — Etta James
“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.” —Maya Angelou ~ Have a sizzling Saturday friend
“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” ― Oprah Winfrey
“I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].” — Lena Horne
“The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.” — Coretta Scott King
Won’t it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.” —Maya Angelou Good night Friend
“I don’t do Black music. I don’t do White music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music.” —Lecrae,
"I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo." – Shirley Chisholm ~ Thinking of you Thursday, my friend
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” – Rosa Parks
“Let us never forget that Black history continues to define American history.” — Yvette D. Clarke ~ Wednesday night restful sleep friend
“The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.” — Whitney M. Young Jr.
Good afternoon❤️ Dear friend/girlfriend Sorry, the internet isn't working well here!!! We're now busy with everything Our house is too heavily insulated, the underfloor heating❤️ and also tall but beautiful trees in front of the house are a bit shorter. They're going to do something about it at our request❤️ and the internet will make it better. I already gave it a nerve tablet❤️, but it didn't help. So many sweet greetings❤️ Hugs from this side❤️ Stay healthy, I hope for everyone.❤️ Well, sweethearts, continue now in the ladies' hair salon and groom❤️ the dogs❤️ Kisses and love❤️ a guardian angel❤️ We hope again Hugs, love you❤️ Soraya❤️
Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Isaiah 58:6 NIV ~ Joy and peace friend.
“In light of your longed-for return, we choose to deny ourselves (fast) certain pleasures for this brief season; but we’re not looking to get one thing from you, Jesus—just more of you.” — Scotty Smith
"No one should look down on you, but sometimes mean people do. The only justification we have for looking down on someone is that we're going to stop and pick them up," —Reverend Jesse Jackson ~ Checking In. Peaceful weekend friend
“America is not like a blanket — one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.” — Reverend Jesse Jackson
