... hooks comments on how she learned to recognize the value of an education that allowed her to speak in many voices. She writes: In part, attending all-black segregated schools with black teachers meant that I had come to understand black poets as being capable of speaking in many...

It seemed that many black students found our situations problematic precisely because our sense of self, and by definition our voice, was not unilateral, monologist, or static but rather multi-dimensional. We were as at home in dialect as we were in standard English. Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to choose one voice over another, not to claim one as more authentic,...

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עמוד 193 - It was really a question of that: the best strutter in the club, he'd be the Grand Marshal. He'd be a man who could prance when he walked, a man that could really fool and surprise you. He'd keep time to the music, but all along he'd keep a strutting and moving so you'd never know what he was going to be doing next. Naturally, the music, it makes you strut, but it's him too, the way he's strutting, it gets you. It's what you want from a parade: you want to see it as well as hear it. And all those... ‏ מופיע ב-5 ספרים מ-1960 עד 2002

עמוד 5 He be sittin' down in his underwear with a towel around his lap, one around his shoulders an' that white handkerchief on his head, and he'd put that grease around his lips. Look like a minstrel man, ya know . . . an' laughin' you know natural the way he is. ‏ מופיע ב-5 ספרים מ-1983 עד 2005

עמוד 170 - Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone; You'll never walk alone. ‏ מופיע ב-40 ספרים מ-1946 עד 2008

עמוד 165 - There's no such thing as on the way out. As long as you are still doing something interesting and good. You are in business as long as you are breathing. Yeah. ‏ מופיע ב-5 ספרים מ-1982 עד 2001

עמוד 107 - never 'found out 'until this day. — All I know is — Whom ever were the 'Gang in 'New York sent 'Gangsters to 'Chicago where I was 'working and tried their 'Damnedest to 'Frighten me into 'Quitting the 'Job and Come to New York, to 'Open up back at 'Connie's Inn again. — And I felt that — as 'dirty as 'Connie 'Fired me and my 'Band, I did not want any 'parts of those 'people 'ever again — I am just that way. If you 'Kick my 'Ass' 'Once you can Tset I won't come back if I can Tielp it, so... ‏ מופיע ב-4 ספרים מ-1997 עד 2004

עמוד 15 So they get full of their mint juleps or that bad whiskey the poor white trash were guzzling down like water, then when they get so damn drunk until they'd go out of their minds, it's Nigger Hunting time. Any Nigger. They wouldn't give up until they would find one. From then on, Lord have mercy on the poor darkie. Then they would torture the poor darkie, as innocent as he may be. Then they would get their usual ignorant Cheshire... ‏ מופיע ב-4 ספרים מ-1997 עד 2005

עמוד 36 I'd carry his horn. I guess I was about 14. Joe gave me cornet lessons, and when I was a kid I ran errands for his wife. ‏ מופיע ב-3 ספרים מ-1995 עד 2004

עמוד 5 Liable to see maybe two policemen or detectives, see. You see a judge. All of 'em different levels of society in the dressin' room and he's talking to all of 'em. "Sister So and So, do you know Slick Sam over there? This is Slick Sam, an ole friend of mine." Now the nun's going to meet Slick Sam. Old Notorious, been in nine penitentiaries. "Slick Sam, meet Rabbi Goldstein over there, he's a friend of mine, rabbi good man, religious man. Sister Margaret, do you know Rabbi Goldstein? Amelia, this is... ‏ מופיע ב-4 ספרים מ-1983 עד 2002

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