Henry Louis Gates Quotes

Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.

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• Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Song
  • Goal
  • Voice