It rides on the shoulders of our aged as they walk into their sunsets. Hope is born again in the faces of children Snow becomes a yielding cushion to aid us Thunder ebbs to silence and lightning sleeps quietly in the corner. The world is encouraged to come away from rancor, Streaming lights of joy, ringing bells of hopeĪnd singing carols of forgiveness high up in the bright air. Into this climate of fear and apprehension, Christmas enters, The sky slips low and grey and threatening.ĭoes the covenant you made with us still hold? Snow falls upon snow, falls upon snow to avalanche I am the dream and the hope of the slave.Īnd lightning rattles the eaves of our houses. love liberates.”īringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, i would like to be near you, i would like to have your arms around me i would like to have your voice in my ear but thats not possible now, i love you so go. i love you if you're in china, i love you if you're across town, i love you if you're in harlem, i love you. and i went back to my house, and something said go back- i was in my pajamas, i jumped in my car and ran and the nurse said "she just gone". you were a piss poor mother of small children but a you were great mother of young adults, and if you need permission to go, i liberate you". you were a great worker, you must've been a great lover cause a lot of men and if I'm not wrong maybe a couple of woman risked their lives to love you. so in her last days, i said "i understand some people need permission to go… as i understand it you may have done what god put you here to do. she deserved a great daughter and she got one. and when she was finally in extemis, she was on oxygen and fighting cancer for her life and i remembered her liberating me, and i said i hoped i would be able to liberate her, she deserved that from me. she had emphysema and lung cancer, i brought her to my home. and when she was in her final sickness i went out to san francisco and the doctor said she had 3 weeks to live, i asked her "would you come to north carolina?" she said yes. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. You write it, you paint it, you dance it, you march it, you vote it. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. “ Bitterness is like cancer it eats upon the host. “It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because then young men and women are tempted to believe he’s inaccessible and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.”ħ. Not without courage because if you don’t have it, sooner or later you’ll stop and say, ‘Eh, the threat is too much, the difficulty is too high, the challenge is too great.’”Ħ. You can’t be consistently kind, or fair, or humane, or generous. “ Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. “I never trust anybody who tells me he or she loves me if the person doesn’t love herself, or himself … self-love is very important that it comes from within, that you have a sense of yourself so that when you walk into an office, you don’t go alone. “Live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. Common Wants To Become A Spider-Man In Next 'Spider-Verse' MovieĢ.
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