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Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.

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Kathleen Battle

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

Consumption, Music, Pop, Pops, Showers, Sing
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I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

Children, Grief, Incremental, Journey, Suffering

I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.

Career, Media, Talking, Think, Thinking

How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.

Light, Like, People, Song, Transformed

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.

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I can't imagine life without singing.

I Can, Imagine, Life, Singing
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