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Music Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave…
- She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life…
- It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting…
- All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,…
- America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same…
- It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in…
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