"read between the lines"

``I was raised in the good book of Jesus, 'Til I learned to read between the lines''


so from what i've just listened not entirely sure her music is quite my cup of tea, though am loving the comparisons with joni mitchell and carole king. and the fact that she kind of slinked off into relative obscurity. and this particular description of her by Jorge Luis Fernandez in a 2003 article entitled the black christmas of Laura Nyro

``While listening to her voice, most people believed she was black. But no, Laura was white; more precisely surnamed Nigro, of Italian descent. Though she wished to be black, that was out of question. And she expressed her frustration with strong piano staccattos. And a powerful, unpredictable voice always fluctuated between tenderness and violence.''