I remember Ella Fitzgerald sort of coming into my life like a bolt of lightning - like, what is that? It was one of the purest examples of God in art that I'd ever seen.
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I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.
I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.'
She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.
When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.
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