James Alan McPherson - Elbow Room (1977)

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No one will believe that I like country music. Even my wife scoffs, when told such a possibility exists. "Go on!" Gloria tells me. "I can see blues, bebop, maybe even a little buckdancing. But not bluegrass." Gloria says, "Hillbilly stuff is not just music. It's like the New York Stock Exchange. The minute you see a sharp rise in it, you better watch out."

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While the two of us are black, the distance between us is sometimes as great as that between Ibo and Yoruba.

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"I'm black. I've accepted myself as that. But didn't I make some elbow room, though?" She tapped her temple with her forefinger. "I mean up here?"

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