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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels (Spirituals Quotes)
Always in the black spirituals there’s that promise that things are going to be better, by and by (Spirituals Quotes)
Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth... All these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed (Spirituals Quotes)
When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians. (Spirituals Quotes)
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies. (Spirituals Quotes)
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I’m at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. (Spirituals Quotes)