Odetta Quote

On why prison and work songs are liberation songs:

You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.


Interview. New York Times (2007)


You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork...

You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork...

You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork...

You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork...