Negro Spirituals Quotes

#1. One of the most beautiful things that recruited me to join the LaRouche movement is its emphasis on Classical singing and composition, especially with the Negro Spirituals, adding a new depth of profundity to songs I had sang while growing up.

Kesha Rogers

#2. [W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.

Countee Cullen

#3. The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

Julius Lester

#4. Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

Daniel D. Palmer

#5. I have no praise anthems, nor old Negro spirituals. The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible - that is precisely why they are so precious.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. I'm an old fan of the Negro spirituals.

Norman Finkelstein

#7. Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.

Michel Foucault

#8. Next time round Hitler will be a machine.

Germaine Greer

#9. It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?

Wayne Dyer

#10. We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

Jason Russell

#11. Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

Mahalia Jackson

#12. I'm not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the music to speak for itself.

Skylar Grey

#13. I've always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I'm ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#14. I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

Isaac Hayes