This is what I hold against slavery. May come a time when I forgive - cause I don't think I'm set up to forget - the beatings, the selling, the killi…

- Sherley Anne Williams

The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical con…

- Sherley Anne Williams

These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do. / My life ain'…

- Sherley Anne Williams

I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that…

- Sherley Anne Williams

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

- Sherley Anne Williams