— ‘More than most, Martin Luther King knew the power of music in times of struggle… In little over a year, the campaign helped to generate 2,000 new jobs in the black community.’ Page 112, 113, Kot, Greg, ‘I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom's Highway’ (Scribner, 2014)

— ‘As early as the 1950s, listening to gospel music on AM radio late at night, an adolescent Bob Dylan heard Mavis Staples’ voice, recalling in a [2002 PBS documentary] how it made his hair stand up on end.’ Page 81, Kot, Greg, ‘I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom's Highway’ (Scribner, 2014)

— ‘Staples told the Guardian recently that she cried when she first sang this song ‘Human Mind’ during recording sessions’: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/30/its-dark-in-the-us-right-now-but-i-turn-on-a-light-you-know-mavis-staples-on-prince-martin-luther-king-and-her-75-year-singing-career