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Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.


Richard Wright

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From new transmitters came the old stupidities. Wisdom was passed on from mouth to mouth.
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KELLY JONES Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bon...
GALWAY KINNELL BE HEARD! BE STRONG! BE PROUD! I WANNA MAKE SOME NOISE!
LEMONADE MOUTH I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, ...
OTIS RUSH Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes o...
KOKO TAYLOR Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
OTTO SCHUWDRMER Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
OTTO SCHUWDRMER I'd wake up in the morning and my mouth would be so dry from breathing with my mouth all night.
BRAD HOAG She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
BIBLE And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and water...
BIBLE Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of fo...
KAREN JOY FOWLER Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The infection can spread. From the mouth, through the bloodstream and then to the vital organs, such...
DANIEL CARMICHAEL Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look ...
W.B. YEATS The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it ge...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Folk Tales of the Tribes of Africa.
EARTHA KITT Europeans love American spirituals and folk songs. We also pick folks songs in Spanish that show the...
LAURA LANE Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Living from hand to mouth.
GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS I have a big mouth.
JULIE BOWEN I have such a big mouth.
KELLY HU Just like dogs and cats, fish feel pain, so if you wouldn't hook dogs through the mouth and drag the...
KARIN ROBERTSON From your mouth to God's ears.
BEATRICE ARTHUR I live from mouth to hand.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I shall bite off your teeth which adhere to your gums and ingest the poison that will then exude fro...
ANGEL FLORES Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Fa...
ST. AMBROSE Her voice had a thin thread of sadness running through it that made the song important, that made it...
ANN PETRY The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music...
OTIS TAYLOR The Wisdom that guides and guards is not on the lips, but in the heart.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer
JAMAICAN PROVERB And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed
OSCAR WILDE Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
PAUL MCCARTNEY I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals...
ERNEST J. GAINES I got a big mouth.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. Truth has the biggest mouth in the universe, wisdom has the largest ears, love has the strongest han...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
FREDERICK LEBOYER This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
DR. FREDERICK LEBOYER They had a fever, were coughing and bleeding from the mouth.
HUSEYIN AVNI SAHIN No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.
DAVID GILMOUR Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from...
JARON LANIER I'm all about whatever it takes for us to win. If that's hitting Eli Manning in the mouth, then we'l...
DONNIE EDWARDS As I speak, I’m reminded of the old saying that diseases go in through the mouth, disasters come o...
LISA SEE I'm me, I live from film to mouth.
ALAN RUDOLPH In addition to celebrating great blues music, we always wanted to make sure that proceeds from this ...
MARTIN SCORSESE Last week in all media classes, we read Chinese folk tales and I did a presentation on China.
LINDA BROOKS The saying, give us this day our daily bread simply means,let us all live from hand to mouth.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Silence is another element we find in classic fairy tales — girls muted by magic or sworn to silen...
TERRI WINDLING For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written —...
ANGELA CARTER Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
BIBLE A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
PROVERB A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
SPANISH PROVERB All of them are receiving IV fluids, fluids for sugar and salt and water, ... The baby born 13 days ...
LEONARD WEISMAN His face was all bloody. He had blood coming from his nose and mouth, and he was flopping (on the gr...
JULIE WILSON All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto...
BIBLE And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth...
BIBLE All sight fish must be hooked in the mouth.
BOBBY LANE Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
WILLIAM BERNBACH A kiss is mouth to mouth resusitation without medical necessity.
JOACHIM FUCHSBERGER It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into t...
HERMAN HESSE The chemical and isotopic composition of the sun is the starting composition from which all planets ...
DON BURNETT Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes ...
ROBERT ORBEN I want your hand without the skin. Bone to bone without the molds. Mouth to mouth, without the porn.
COCO J. GINGER The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned.
SOURCE UNKNOWN A fly cannot enter a closed mouth
RUSSIAN PROVERB I'm me, I live from film to mouth.
ALAN RUDOLPH You have to let these people think they're discovering the acts for themselves by word of mouth.
ALEXANDER MAIR Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We strongly feel this is predominantly person-to-person, spread through hand-to-mouth activity, and ...
DAVE FORNEY Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoo...
DENNIS VICKERS I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
WILLIAM WHITELAW Why do such lies spew from thy mouth?
ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
GEORGE HERBERT Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,Till we can clear these ambiguities.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yesterday the word came through that they had opened the river to two-way traffic 24 hours a day, do...
LEE NELSON the mouth that roared.
MARTHA MITCHELL Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foa...
BRET EASTON ELLIS You don't need your mouth to pee.
THE BROTHERS GRIMM Watch Your Mouth.
DANIEL HANDLER The children are definitely getting a benefit from this because it?s impossible to learn with proble...
CLAUDIA SMITH A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
CRISS JAMI Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simp...
NEIL GAIMAN I showed her my mouth, which is very hard for me to do.
BERNADETTE PEREZ Before I spoke with people, I did not think of all these things because there was no one to bother t...
BERNARD POMERANCE I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being ...
ROGER MCGUINN A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not cl...
RICHARD MITCHELL Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
BIBLE The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you...
NORMAN COOK A Bluesman hates to be told what to do. Authority rankles him, inspires his rebellion, and plays to ...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his ...
BIBLE Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore
J.K. ROWLING I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to p...
KENNETH BRANAGH I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see,...
CHARLES DE LINT Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA If you keep your mouth shut, the flies won't get in
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JEFFREY WRIGHT Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
STEVEN WRIGHT In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be...
STEVEN WRIGHT It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT