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"America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its…" — Sonny Rollins
c. 1958(Approximate date)· Sonny Rollins (speaker)
“America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music. How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.”
- Speaker
- Sonny Rollins
- Occasion
- Liner notes to Freedom Suite (Riverside Records), 1958
Sonny Rollins, in his own liner notes to Freedom Suite, on the irony of a nation rooted in Negro culture rewarding Black people with inhumanity.
Sources & citations
- 1.newdirectionsinmusic.comwebsite
- 2.earlmacdonald.comwebsite