... of my sources of my spiritual grounding is the blues. Van Morrison's Hymns to the Silence has become the sound track of my soul. It floats around me and catches me in moments of solitude. It speaks to me of my journey, the things that have made me, the yearning for depth in prayer. It reflects a nostalgia for the innocence of youth, time that is gone, and a longing for a safe place to be ... the thirst for God. There is a spirit of rejuvenation and rebirth in Morrison's blues - there is no us and them. He ...
... . We 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. We have built some of the greatest ...
