The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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