Amazing grace Quote by Dick Gregory

Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks…

— John Lennon

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just…

— Ben E. King

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

— James Weldon Johnson

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is…

— Ben Folds

I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances…

— Henry Rollins

Why when a so g comes on. The white women saids Oh my god thats my song. And the Black women says turn that…

— Jamario Jackson

“I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as…

— Frederick Douglass

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have…

— Nelson Mandela

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by…

— Frederick Douglass

The music of the civil rights movement came from Black artists.

— Jasmine Crockett