“My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.”
Fooling, Drowning, Hallelujahing, p. 174
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
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I am the Blues: the Willie Dixon Story (with Don Snowden, 1990), p. 4.
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“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”

A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)
Context: And I
in terror
but not in doubt of
what I must do
in anguish, in haste,
wrenched from the earth root after root,
the soil heaving and cracking, the moss tearing asunder —
and behind me the others: my brothers
forgotten since dawn. In the forest
they too had heard,
and were pulling their roots in pain
out of a thousand years' layers of dead leaves,
rolling the rocks away,
breaking themselves
out of
their depths.