Stephanie Mills
Stephanie Mills
Stephanie Mills is an American R&B, soul and gospel singer, songwriter and Broadway star. She rose to stardom as "Dorothy" in the original Broadway run of the musical The Wiz from 1975 to 1977. The song "Home" from the show later became a No.1 U.S. R&B hit for Mills and her signature song. In the 1980s she scored five No.1 R&B hits, including "Home", "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love", "I Feel Good All Over", "A Rush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth22 March 1957
CityQueens, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Stephanie Mills quotes about
Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.
It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.
Respecting beings, places, and life ways would be a basis for a worthy systemic analysis. And such an analysis would be inherently conservative, assuming that technology - from the fire stick to the silicon chip - is apt to do more harm to the Whole than good.
Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.
Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.
A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may...
Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It would proceed from the kind of understanding Chellis articulated: Life is Whole.
Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.
There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.
Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.
A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.
We try to get into a service blitz. We have a very giving and caring congregation and lots of times that we reach out to the community.
Being a mom has made me a better person. It's made me more compassionate. It's just awesome. I think I was put here to be a mom.