Mavis Staples Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.”

“I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.”

“There are songs that I have to play!”

“Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.”

“We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.”