Otis Moss Iii Quotes

I would rather fail doing God's work than have a pseudo-victory being co-opted by someone else.

I contend that if we are to reclaim the best of the preaching tradition then we must learn what I call the Blue Note gospel. Before you get to your resurrection shout you must pass by the challenge and pain called Calvary.

Ralph Ellison, the literary maven and cultural critic, states, “The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one’s aching consciousness. . . . As a form, the Blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically

Why are you up?” they asked. “You have to see this! There’s a man outside. He’s punching holes in the darkness!” Reverend Kyles explained, “That’s your role: To punch holes in the darkness.