Otis Moss III > Quotes

“I would rather fail doing God's work than have a pseudo-victory being co-opted by someone else.”
― Otis Moss III

“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.”
― Otis Moss III, Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World: Finding Hope in an Age of Despair

“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”
― Otis Moss III, Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World: Finding Hope in an Age of Despair