Sherley Anne Williams Quotes

#1. 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 really makes a difference to me in writing.

Sherley Anne Williams

#2. 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 killings, but I don't think I ever forgive the ignorance they kept us in.

Sherley Anne Williams

#3. Everyone thought because she was so too-ga-tha she didn't feel pain and the men she went with felt the same.

Sherley Anne Williams

#4. There's no earthly use in bein too-ga-tha if it don't put some joy in yo life.

Sherley Anne Williams

#5. The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people ... Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.

Sherley Anne Williams

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

Sherley Anne Williams

#7. 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't done yet. / Naw. My song ain't through.

Sherley Anne Williams