... next book in the Bible, written about thirty years later, there is a verse which says, "Simon of Cyrene, father of Rufus and Alexander." When Simon of Cyrene was forced to carry the cross he must have thought there couldn’t have been anything more degrading. How he ... a pity!" they murmured. "Nothing will come out of that family." But a baby was born to those parents. His name was Ludwig Beethoven. He composed some of the greatest music that ever inspired the human heart and mind. When I think of that ...
... have made our mark in literature and letters. Our writers range from Socrates and Aesop to William Shakespeare, Alexandre Dumas, and Alexander Pushkin;from Ralph Ellison to Toni Morrison; from Cheikh Anta Diop to W.E.B. DuBois and Carter G. Woodson. We ... are a people of music, culture, and industry. We have among us Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Joseph Haydn as well as Harry Burleigh, John Coltrane, Wynton Marsalis, Marian Anderson, Kathleen Battle, and Paul Robeson ...
