Sweet Honey in the Rock on the true meaning of spirituals

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	Sweet Honey in the Rock on the true meaning of spirituals

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7-5-2008 11:46 PM

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enbar says:

I love this quotation. It's spoken in the middle of a live gospel performance by Sweet Honey in the Rock, performed in a church in 1980.

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                        <DIV class="source">— Sweet Honey in the Rock, “Good News,” from <I>Breaths</I> (Flying Fish, 1988).<BR /><A target="_blank" href="http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/B000000MF4"><IMG src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000MF4.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg" /></A></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F880F942-738A-488C-BD05-615BCFD850F3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>