“I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of…”

—  Paul Robeson

As quoted in "Paul Robeson and Negro Music" in The New York Times (5 April 1931)

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