Ma Rainey quotes
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“If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.”
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“My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.”
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“They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.”
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“I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.”
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“[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.”
-- Ma Rainey
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”
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Source : The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).
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“There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.”
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Source : "Press Clips". The Village Voice, January 21, 1980.
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“Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.”
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