Das mit den Hasen ist etwas vom Krassesten in dem Gespräch, ja! Dazu gehört (Baraka) wohl das hier:
Calvin’s Center was one of the stops on the Underground Railroad. A lot of those folks there were light-skinned with straight hair. The runaway slaves married the whites and Indians there. So they didn’t socialize with us much.
Hatte gedacht 17 Kinder sei inkl. die fünf, die nicht überlebt haben (es gab 12, Lincoln war Nr. 10, für Nr. 12 hat der Vater gesungen).
Und danke für die Erläuterung zum „gemeinsam … unterhalten“, das war mir wirklich nicht ganz klar.
Zu den Einflüssen und den Erlebnissen in der Zeit in Honolulu und L.A. gibt es bei Baraka ein paar zitierenswerte Absätze – Ellington, Holiday, Washington, Armstrong usw. (und die Schreibweise „Paitch“, die ich im folgenden Post – der nebenher in Arbeit ist, schwierig 
– bemängle, ist tatsächlich auch aus dem Text von Baraka):
Talking about how and what she learned and from whom: “I really didn’t know much about the music then. But I began to meet people. I met Duke [Ellington] coming from Hawaii. He used to stay in a suite in one of the two black hotels in L.A., the Watkins. That’s when it was all segregated. So when Duke was in town, he always stayed at the Watkins.
“So I decided I wanted to sing with Duke. He hadn’t asked for a singer. But I just went up to see him, and hit on him, telling him I wanted to sing with the band. Duke didn’t say much, he just began to undress and walk toward the bedroom. Then he rolled the bed down, and I walked out of there.” Abbey is having much fun running this down. “I never told that to any writers before. I guess he was letting me know, up front, so I got right out of there.
“I met a lot of people in L.A. and Honolulu. I met Billie Holiday, Cozy Cole, Louis Armstrong. I never got close to Billie. Actually, I was afraid of her. I mean I respected her so much. I wasn’t going to walk up to her like some of these singers do to me and start talking about myself, give me their latest record.” So it is that Abbey describes her relationship with Billie as “kind of standoffish.”
“Louis was a wonderful man. He didn’t look at a woman’s behind, he looked right into your eyes and he was a great friend. Dinah Washington and Sassy liked me. Actually, they treated me as a mascot, ’cause I was still learning the music. I already had a career, as a glamour queen. I didn’t have to be there”-she means not only Honolulu or L.A.-“but I had to be there. I had to be in the music.”
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