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Albert Murray

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

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These are some quotes by American author Albert Murray Critic, who lived between May 12, 1916 and August 18, 2013.

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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

Albert Murray

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The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.

Albert Murray

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The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

Albert Murray

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If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

Julian Baggini

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Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

John Boyle O'Reilly

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I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

Rollie Fingers

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