...Smith, through her tone and her cadence, who helped me to dig back to the way I myself must have spoken when I was a pickaninny, and to remember the things...but in Europe she helped to reconcile me to being a "nigger." I do not think that I could have made this reconciliation here. Once I was able to accept...

...Smith, through her tone and her cadence, who helped me to dig back to the way I myself must have spoken when I was a pickaninny, and to remember the things...heard and seen and felt. I had buried them very deep. " Now, here's the part, Jim: "I had never listened to Bessie Smith in America (in the same way that,...

...pickaninny, and to remember the things 1 had heard and seen and felt. 1 had buried them very deep. 1 had never listened to Bessie Smith in America (in the same way that, for years, 1 would not touch watermelon), but in Europe she helped to reconcile me to being a 'nigger.' (5) The...

...Smith, through her tone and her cadence, who helped me to dig back to the way I myself must have spoken when I was a pickaninny, and to remember the things...and seen and felt. I had buried them very deep. I have never listened to Bessie Smith in America (in the same way that, for years I would not touch watermelon),...

...cadence, who helped me to dig back to the way I myself must have spoken when I was a pickaninny. ... I had never listened to Bessie Smith in America (in...but in Europe she helped to reconcile me to being a 'nigger' " ("Discovery" 172). The United States and its peculiar racial landscape were not familiar...

...Smith, through her tone and her cadence . . . helped me dig back to the way I myself must have spoken when I was a pickaninny, and to remember the things I had heard and seen and felt. I had buried them deep.21 Poet Maya Angelou describes the "sweet oil" of music as a healing balm in one volume of her...

...Smith, through her tone and her cadence, who helped me to dig back to the way I myself must have spoken when I was a pickaninny, and to remember the things I had heard and seen and felt" (5). The blues singer helps Baldwin recapture the ca318 dence of Negro speech and the lost world of...

...Smith, through her tone and her cadence, who helped me to dig back to the way I must myself have spoken when I was a pickaninny, and to remember the things I had seen and felt. I had buried them very deep. I had never listened to Bessie Smith in America (in the...