Spencer Blues Explosion

Famous quotes containing the words spencer, blues and/or explosion:

“A successful woman preacher was once asked “what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry?” “Not one,” she answered, “except the lack of a minister’s wife.””
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

“Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion ....”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)