“Being able to sing good ain’t all about having a good singing voice a’tall. A good singing voice helps. But when you come up in the Hard Shell Baptist church like I did you understand early that the fellow that sings is the singer. Them that waits for programs and arrangements and letters from home is just good voices occupying body space.”

— Alice Walker,
from the short story “Nineteen Fivety-five,”
in the collection You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down

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