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