Showing posts with label Slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slavery. Show all posts
Billie Holiday Quotes
"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation." - Billie Holiday
Roy Ayers Quotes
"What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression." - Roy Ayers
Wynton Marsalis Quotes
"I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time." - Wynton Marsalis
