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Quotation by Eileen Southern
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The Music of Black Americans (1971)
Who are our true rulers? The Negro poets, to be sure. Do they not set the fashion, and give laws to the public taste? Let one of them, in the swamps of Carolina, compose a new song, and it no sooner reaches the ear of a white amateur, than it is written down, amended (that is, almost spoilt), printed, and then put upon a course of rapid dissemination, to cease only with the utmost bounds of Anglo-Saxondom, perhaps with the world. Meanwhile, the poor author digs away with his hoe, utterly ignorant of his greatness.
Eileen Southern (b. 1920), U.S. author. Quoted from Knickerbocker Magazine (1845). The Music of Black Americans (1971).
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