Albert Murray (writer) Quotes

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Going back home has probably always had as much if not more to do with people as with landmarks and place names and locations on maps and mileage charts anyway. Not that home is not a place, for even in its most abstract implications it is precisely the very oldest place in the world.

Albert Murray

It seems altogether likely that white people in the United States will continue to reassure themselves with black images derived from the folklore of white supremacy and the fakelore of black pathology so long as segregation enables them to ignore the actualities.

Albert Murray

Improvisation is the ultimate human (i.e., heroic) endowment.

Albert Murray

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

Albert Murray

Integrated or not, Negroes have always been in a position to observe almost everything that has been doing and undoing in this country.

Albert Murray

The implications of self-definition, self-celebration, and perhaps not a little self-inflation and self-designation are nevertheless quite as obvious in each as for all.

Albert Murray