Albert Murray Quotes

• The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

  Albert Murray

  People, Creation, Strive

  Albert Murray, Roberta S. Maguire (1997). “Conversations with Albert Murray”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

  Albert Murray

  Men, Medicine, Swings

  Albert Murray (1970). “The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy”

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• I am not an African. I am an American.

  Albert Murray

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