"As much a performance artist as soul diva." "A Hip Hop foremother"
 Spin Magazine

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"Everything we love Lauryn for, her individuality, her womaness, her daring voice, her willingness to tackle unpopular topics, her effortless shift from Rap to song and back again, and her limitless musical exploration - Camille Yarbrough did a generation ago. Who told her she could be a renaissance woman? She empowered herself."
 Kevin Powell: Journalist
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"A trailblazer"
 Allison Stewart, Request Magazine
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"She is so accurate that there is no question this is a sharp-eyed witness who is telling it like it is.
 Kalamu Ya Salaam: QBR Views and Reviews
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"Poetess - soul singer - her songs are all thought-provoking."
 Billboard Magazine
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The most important rediscovery of the year: Camille Yarbrough's one album. Obscure since 1975, fills out the spoken word Mt. Rushmore of Last Poets, Watts prophets and Gill Scott-Heron completing the chrysalis phase of poetry moving into rap in the half-decade before hip-hop. The flow between speech and song is as natural as the nuance, two-way view of a couple's emotional obstacles in "But It Comes Out Mad." The arrangements of "Ain't It a Lonely Feeling" and "Take Yo' Praise" display an astute and agile interplay of fullness and silence years before this became a stock pop technique. The multiple soliloquies of the 14-minute medley "Dream/Panic/Sonny boy the Rip-off Man/Little Sally the Super Sex Star (Taking Care of Business)" are backed with a sequence of transitions from sparing Africanate percussion to a gunshot sound-effect to carnival-barker ambiance to strip-club vamp that can only be called "Prog-Rap." Simple but eloquent, humble yet stirring in her performance, career activist Yarbrough makes the rare leap from front person to prophet. The indomitable conviction of her delivery is as encouraging as the persistent relevance of her tales of eroding rights is ominous. The original six tracks are rounded out with two remixes of "Take Yo' Praise" bowing to its recent sampling by Fatboy Slim for his hit "Praise You." But this music needs no technical enhancements to sound brand new.
 CDNOW - Adam McGovern
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"Captivating...when Camille performs audiences of all ages respond...they find themselves on their feet throughout Camille's show."
 April Silver: AkilaWorksongs .