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"There is a season for everything, patience will reward you and reveal all answers to your questions.' 'Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away."
"I'm with a crowd but oh so alone."
"Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release."
"Those people in New York are not gonna change me none."
"Where could I go but to the Lord?"
"Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle."
"It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can."
"Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low."
"My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back."
"I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it."
"Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old."
"I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures."
"We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall."
"I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum."
"A little less conversation, a little more ACTION."
"I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel."
"I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs."
"I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely."
"If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty"
"I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in."