"The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people."
"I am not an African. I am an American."
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Source: Albert Murray (1970). “The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy”
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