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Kari C's avatar

Oh man do you have a way with words - even telling known stories, you breathe new life into them

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Leigh Horne's avatar

Oh, yeah. And your words, your phrases, your searing insight are the perfect companion for jazz. One of the most interesting among many interesting experience of my life came after I first went abroad, spending some time among the haunts of my ancestors in Northern Europe. Subtly, oddly, it began to sink in that there was something fundamentally different between me and Europeans. I was minded of something Ike Turner once said, "The Englishman says, 'Beg Pardon,' and the Yankee asks, "Say what?" That crystallized for me the fact that I am in part African American, no matter my DNA. How awful our karma, how great our guilt, and how blessed the gifts of grit and insight and survival itself we've been given on this continent. If only we'd take the time to delve into them.

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PipK's avatar

I'm compelled to read this out loud even though I'm sitting here by myself and my accent is English. I love your words and sentiment :-)

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Dr. Deborah Hall's avatar

ah the poetry

the music of your words

the power of your elegy

for the courageous

who rose from the fields

lifting us all

to a higher love

you know the soul

of our country

and where it came from

like Whitman

you hear America singing

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