Sherley Anne Williams Quotes

• These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do. / My life ain't done yet. / Naw. My song ain't through.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Music, Song, Women

  Sherley Anne Williams (1975). “The Peacock Poems”, p.25, Wesleyan University Press

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• I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Communication, Writing, Thinking

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• This is what I hold against slavery. May come a time when I forgive - cause I don't think I'm set up to forget - the beatings, the selling, the killings, but I don't think I ever forgive the ignorance they kept us in.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Ignorance, Thinking, Forgiving

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• The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Music, Philosophical, Talking

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• A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Heritage, Slavery, Continuing

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