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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.
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.... (more Ma Rainey quotes)
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play by August Wilson |
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis |
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Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey by Sandra R. Lieb |
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