"Creole began to tell us what the blues were all about. They were not about anything very new. He and his boys up there were keeping it new, at the risk of ruin, destruction, madness and death, in order to find new ways to make us listen. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it must always be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness."
- From "Sonny's Blues", a short story by James Baldwin
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It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken
Perhaps they're better left unsung
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