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My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.
Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
-- Paule Marshall, (Apr 9 1929-2019), US writer, educator; She wrote The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, 1961 and Daughters, 1991.