When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

- Mahalia Jackson

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

- Mahalia Jackson

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

- Mahalia Jackson

Without a song, each day would be a century.

- Mahalia Jackson

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.

- Mahalia Jackson

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

- Mahalia Jackson

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

- Mahalia Jackson

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 blu…

- Mahalia Jackson

Everybody needs somebody.

- Mahalia Jackson